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Wage and salary earners' workplace accident frequency decreased in 2023

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release | Occupational accident statistics 2023

According to Statistics Finland's data, the number of wage and salary earners' accidents at workplace with minimum 4 days incapacity was 8.2 per one million hours worked in the year 2023 (9.0 in the year 2022). 35.8% workplace accidents leading to at least four days of incapacity for work were consequences of stumbling, jumping, slipping or falling.

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  • Wage and salary earners' workplace accident frequency that resulted in at least four days of incapacity for work was 8.2 in 2023.
  • Wage and salary earners' accident incidence rate at workplace in at least four days of incapacity for work was 1280 workplace accidents per 100,000 wage and salary earners in 2023.
  • Construction industry (15,5 accidents at workplace per million working hours) had highest wage and salary earners' workplace accident frequency in accidents at workplace (min 4. days incapacity) in the year 2022.
  • Wage and salary earner's workplace accidents that resulted in more than four days of incapacity for work 39.7% occurred when the person was moving during a specific physical activity."

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129t
Classifications used:
  • Sex
  • Age group
  • Period of disability
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irregular
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12b6
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  • Sex
  • Specific Physical Activity
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year
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12b9
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  • Deviation
  • Sex
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year
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year
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12zz
Classifications used:
  • Period of disability
  • Sex
  • Age group
  • Industry
  • Place of accident
Reference period cycle:
year
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irregular
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13h8
Classifications used:
  • Sex
  • Part of body injured
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year
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year
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13iw
Classifications used:
  • Sex
  • Type of injury
Reference period cycle:
year
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year
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13p6
Classifications used:
  • Sex
  • Contact-Mode of injury
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year
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year
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13ql
Classifications used:
  • Sex
  • Industry
Reference period cycle:
year
Updating frequency:
irregular
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Official Statistics of Finland (OSF): Occupational accident statistics [online publication].
Reference period: 2023. ISSN=1797-9544. Helsinki: Statistics Finland [Referenced: 29.11.2025].
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