Lab, Esk, Steilas, Ehne-Etxalde and Hiru claim that deceased employees also grow in official figures, from 41 to 47. As noted, “the number of accidents does not stop” and in the last 10 years 612 has died in the CAV and Navarra.
The intersonical of vocational health that integrates Lab, Esk, Steilas, Ehne-Etxalde and HiruDid on the Kaak on Tuesday that fatal accidents last year increased in Hego Euskal Herria, even in official data from administrations. According to their report compared to 2024, 64 deaths were registered, with 59 in 2023, while official figures calculate 47 last year, six more than 41 of 2023.
During a press conference, offered at the Lab headquarters in Bilbao, representatives of the fifty trade unions are detailed their report that, under their conclusions, as explained by the Occupational Health Head, Inko Iriart, as spokesperson, confirmed last year ” Have been more work accidents than in 2023 according to our data, but it has emphasized, “also according to official data.”
As they have warned, “keeps the number of accidents not increasing”, although “more and more people are working in the service sector (73 %), a habitat, a priori less given to serious accidents, that is, outside the sectors that are the most cause traumatic accidents, “he said.
After he remembers that the number of employees who died in the Basque autonomous community (CAV) and Navarra amount to at least 10 years 612 peopleIrte has emphasized that “the data confirms that in certain sectors there are more likely to die in an accident, such as Forestry, Industry, Transport, Construction, Agriculture or Fisheries“
With regard to the deaths that took place in 2024 in the CAV and Navarra, the report completed death 19 in Niet -traumatic accidents, 18 for success and abuse (7 of those related to machines), 15 on the road (Accidents in Itinere or in Mission) and 11 for height.
In addition, the intersindical “the critical sectors” has identified The forest activity leaves three dead, the fishing sector two, agriculture threetwo in relocations on ground tracks and one by tractor, the Industry (19 deadseven of them in accidents linked to machines), Construction (11) and transport (14 deadFour of them not traumatic).
Subcontract
At the moment, trade unions have an emphasis on the relationship between subcontractors and accidents that are linked to Labor Precaress This group affects this group more.
So the fixed report on 10 The dead workers who have been assumedWhat, in his opinion, leads to “the large number of deaths in the subcontractors, because they are subcontractors where health regulations are fulfilled to a lesser extent, because of precaressness”, which “the more risk is because it is precisely because it is precisely where prevention it is least is integrated.
Inko Iriart has pointed out that the photo of industrial accidents confirms that “in some sectors work, there is more chance of dying and that in others there is more chance of developing occupational diseases and psychosocial disorders, in particular more and clearer” feminized sectors, who experience the most extreme situation.
“Power, a smokescreen”
After he has denounced that There are jobs that kill and others who don’t let it liveIrte has assured that all these figures and analyzes surrounding the accidents and work reality “demonstrate that the discourse on absenteeism is a smokescreen and that the biggest problem is the professional risks, risks generated by the employer who violates the legislation, with these dramatic results .
On the other hand, in relation to the accidents that led to work, they increased in 2024, from 36 057 to 40 375, while in contrast to accidents without victim waste, from 37 764 in 2023 to 37 651 last year.
The report of the Intersindical is put into the official data provided by the companies and the mutuals where their census they have noticed, also in 2024 the figures for the previous year, with a total of 102,000 work accidents, half of which generated A decrease in more than a day.
Source: EITB
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