Work. In 6 months, injuries rose + 8.9%, deaths fell -5.6

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July 30, 2021 Between January and June of this year the reports of accidents at work were 266,804, i.e. + 8.9% compared to the same period in 2020, in the same period of time fatal accidents fell to -5.6%.

These are Inail data that show the growth in complaints for professional pathologies: 28,855 or + 41.9%.

In particular, the reports of accidents at work submitted to Inail by last June were 266,804, almost 22,000 more (+ 8.9%) compared to 244,896 in the first six months of 2020, a summary of a decrease in complaints observed in the January-March quarter (-10%) and an increase in the April-June period (+ 40%) in the comparison between the two years. The reports of fatal cases presented to the Institute in the same period were 538, or 32 less than the 570 registered in the first six months of 2020 (-5.6%).

The comparison between 2020 and 2021, "however, requires caution - underlines the Institute - as the data of the deadly reports of the monthly open data, more than those of the reports as a whole, are provisional and strongly influenced by the Covid-19 pandemic. , with the result of not counting a significant number of 'late' fatal reports of contagion, in particular relating to the month of March 2020 ". Inail also notes that "the deaths caused by Covid-19 occur after a more or less long period of time has elapsed from the date of the infection". That said, the data show for the first half of this year an increase only in ongoing cases, which went from 85 to 94 (+ 10.6%), while those occurred during work were 41 fewer (from 485 at 444, -8.5%).