{"id":500090,"date":"2025-10-15T00:10:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/500090\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T00:10:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T00:10:32","slug":"accidents-at-work-claimed-3-298-lives-in-the-eu-in-2023-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/500090\/","title":{"rendered":"Accidents at work claimed 3 298 lives in the EU in 2023 &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In 2023, there were 2.83 million non-fatal <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Accident_at_work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accidents at work<\/a> in the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU<\/a>, a 5% decrease (-148 935) from 2.98 million in 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">The number of <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Fatal_accident_at_work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fatal<\/a> work-related accidents was 3 298, accounting for 0.1% of all accidents. This was 12 fatalities more than in 2022, but 110 less than in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">The information comes from the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/web\/health\/database?node_code=hsw_acc_work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European statistics on accidents at work data collection<\/a> that was released by Eurostat today. This article presents a handful of findings from a more detailed <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Accidents_at_work_statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Statistics Explained article on accidents at work<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1ded23e9-9d1f-2a70-a69f-7e274b2e1372\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fatal accidents at work in the EU, 2013-2023. Bar chart - Click below to see full dataset.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1ded23e9-9d1f-2a70-a69f-7e274b2e1372\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/3bfe9cd9-38f9-42e8-8241-dc8b8851b922?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hsw_mi_08<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Across the EU, there were on average 1.63 fatalities per 100 000 employed people in 2023, compared with 1.66 fatalities in 2022. The incidence rate has remained below 2 fatalities per 100 000 workers since 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6531a27e-6f64-7821-d264-0364c0250a2e\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Incidence rate for fatal accidents at work in the EU, 2013-2023. Bar chart - Click below to see full dataset. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/6531a27e-6f64-7821-d264-0364c0250a2e\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-align-center ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/6904ae1f-0975-4a3f-8f43-b027fe939df9?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hsw_mi_08<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2023, there were 2.83 million non-fatal accidents at work in the EU, a 5% decrease (-148 935)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[64410,2000,299,5187,119243,64411],"class_list":{"0":"post-500090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-data-driven-news","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-hlth","13":"tag-population-and-social-conditions"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115375285907784736","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}