• Table 1: Fatal accidents at work in Europe by member state, 2005
• Table 2: Over 3 day accidents at work in Europe by member state, 2005
• Table 3: Rates of fatal and of over-3-day injury (a) in Europe per 100,000 workers or employees, 2005
• Table 4: Industry Sectors for the EU average and Great Britain 2005. Rates of fatal and over 3 day injury per 100 000 workers
• Table 5: Rates of fatal injury in Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and EU average 2001 – 2005
• Table 6: Rates of over 3 day injury in Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and EU average 2001 – 2005

Table 1: Fatal accidents at work in Europe by member state, 2005

Member State	Fatal Accidents at Work (a)
	Total excluding RTTA (b)		Fatal RTTA (b)		Total including RTTA (b)
	Number	Standardised Incidence Rate (c)	Number	% of total deaths	Number
Austria	138	4.8	49	26%	187
Belgium	45	2.6	34	43%	79
Denmark	34	2.2	13	28%	47
Finland	31	2.0	25	45%	56
France	234	2.0	298	56%	532
Germany	361	1.8	260	42%	621
Great Britain (c)	179	1.4	Not available	Not available	179
Greece	24	1.6	4	14%	28
Ireland (c)	49	3.1	Not available	Not available	49
Italy	401	2.6	443	52%	844
Luxembourg	5	2.6	2	29%	7
Netherlands (d)	51	1.6	14	Not calculated	65
Portugal	235	6.5	32	12%	267
Spain	400	3.5	208	34%	608
Sweden	39	1.7	20	34%	59
European Union	2 226	2.3	1 402	39%	3 628

Notes

1. RTTAs (road traffic and transport accidents) at work are defined as accidents in the transport branch and traffic accidents or accidents on all means of transport at work in all other branches of economic activity.
2. The profile of employment by industrial sector will vary between member states and will impact therefore on the comparison between member states. The standardised incidence rate of fatal injury for each member state is calculated on the basis of sectoral rates in the member state applying to the profile of employment at EU level. In effect, the rates for member states are standardised to the same basis of employment by industry - the EU profile.
3. Data on road traffic and transport accidents are not available for Great Britain and Ireland, except for accidents in the transport branch other than traffic and means of transport (NACE I).
4. Partial data are quoted for fatal RTTAs in the Netherlands.

Table 2: Over 3 day accidents at work in Europe by member state, 2005

Notes

1. The profile of employment by industrial sector will vary between member states and will impact therefore on the comparison between member states. The rate of injury for each member state is calculated on the basis of sectoral rates in the member state applying to the profile of employment at EU level. In effect, the rates for member states are standardised to the same basis of employment by industry - the EU profile.
2. Austria: declarations/reporting complete excluding agriculture and public administration.
3. Italy: declarations/reporting complete excluding self-employed crafts people.
4. The Netherlands has changed its system of reporting, based on an accident module in the Labour Force Survey. This new system is not comparable with other member states.

Table 3: Rates of fatal and of over-3-day injury (a) in Europe per 100,000 workers or employees, 2005

Country	Rate of fatal injury	Rate of over-3-day injury	Employed people covered
Great Britain (b)	1.4	1 271	workers
Greece	1.6	1 626	employees
Netherlands (b)	1.6	2 653	employees
Sweden	1.7	1 130	workers
Germany	1.8	3 233	workers
Finland	2.0	3 031	employees
France	2.0	4 448	employees
Denmark (b)	2.2	2 658	workers
EU average	2.3	3 098
Italy	2.6	2 900	workers
Belgium	2.6	3 167	employees
Luxembourg	2.6	3 414	workers
Ireland (b)	3.1	1 217	workers
Spain	3.5	5 715	employees
Austria	4.8	2 564	employees
Portugal	6.5	4 056	employees

Notes

1. Eurostat excludes commuting accidents. Eurostat excluded transport industry accidents and road traffic accidents from rates of fatal injury but included them in rates of non-fatal over 3 day injury where the effect of their inclusion is relatively small. All rates of injury are based on nine branches of industry: agriculture (including hunting and forestry), manufacturing, utilities, construction, retail and wholesale distribution, hotels and restaurants, transport, financial services and real estate activities.Deaths are "immediate" and exclude those that occur up to a year later.
2. The over-3-day injury rate in these four member states are derived from the Labour Force Survey. Injury rates in other member states are based on claims made through insurance and/or other social security systems.

Table 4: Industry Sectors for the EU average and Great Britain 2005. Rates of fatal and over 3 day injury per 100 000 workers

Industry (section in SIC 92)	EU average		Great Britain (2005/06)
	Fatal	Over-3-day	Fatal	Non-fatal injury #
Agriculture (A)	10.1	4 560	9.0	1970 (1330, 2610)
Construction (F)	8.8	6 069	3.0	1580 (1350, 1820)
Transport, storage & communication (I)	7.6	3 696	1.1	1500 (1250, 1740)
Electricity, Gas and Water (E)	3.5	1 830	1.0	Not available
Manufacturing (D)	2.6	3 505	1.4	1310 (1140, 1470)
Within manufacturing:
-  non-metallic mineral products (DI)	8.5	5 701	6.3	Not available
-  wood & wood products (DD)	7.3	6 864	4.5	Not available
-  basic metals & metal products (DJ)	4.4	5 762	1.2	Not available
-  food products, beverages & tobacco (DA)	3.0	4 789	1.0	Not available
Wholesale and retail trade, and repairs (G)	1.4	2 184	0.3	990 (850, 1120)
Financial intermediation, real estate, renting and business activities (J&K)	1.3	1 439	0.3	320 (250, 400)
Hotels & restaurants (H)	0.9	2 943	0.2	1010 (750, 1260)

Notes

Eurostat included transport industry accidents and road traffic accidents in its rates of fatal injury in industry sectors, leading to an EU average rate of 8.3. This will affect the comparison between the EU and Great Britain for the transport category.

The coverage of accident notification in the transport industry varies slightly between member states. As a result, Eurostat’s rates of injury in transport and storage excludes: rail transport in France, Italy and Great Britain; sea transport in Denmark, Greece, France and Great Britain; and air transport in Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands and Great Britain.

# Labour Force Survey (LFS) rate of non-fatal injury, per 100 000 employees: a three-year average e.g. 2003/04 - 2005/06 (centred on 2004/05). More details about the data sources are given on HSE’s website at http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/sources.htm. 

95% confidence intervals are given in brackets. They represent the range of uncertainty resulting from the estimate being derived from a sample of people, not from the entire population. They are calculated in such a way that the range has a 95% chance of including the true value in the absence of bias i.e.the value that would have been obtained if the entire population had been surveyed.

Some over 3 day injury rates in Great Britain are not available as the LFS results produce very small estimates and are therefore not reliable for publication.

Table 5: Rates of fatal injury in Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and EU average 2001 - 2005

Year	Great Britain	Germany	France	Italy	Spain	EU average
2001	1.5	2.0	3.2	3.1	4.4	2.7
2002	1.4	2.5	2.6	2.1	4.3	2.5
2003	1.1	2.3	2.8	2.8	3.7	2.5
2004	1.4	2.2	2.7	2.5	3.2	2.4
2005	1.4	1.8	2.0	2.6	3.5	2.3

Notes

Rates of fatal injury are expressed per 100 000 employees in France, workers in Britain, workers in Italy, and insured workers in Germany.

Table 6: Rates of over 3 day injury in Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and EU average 2001 – 2005

Year	Great Britain	Germany	France	Italy	Spain	EU average
2001	1 665	4 380	4 819	3 779	6 917	3 841
2002	1 632	4 082	4 887	3 387	6 728	3 529
2003	1 614	3 674	4 689	3 267	6 520	3 329
2004	1 336	3 618	4 434	3 098	6 054	3 176
2005	1 271	3 233	4 448	2 900	5 715	3 098

Notes

Work related road traffic accidents are excluded from rates of non-fatal injury for Great Britain but are included for the other member states.