Increase in workplace accidents for foreign workers

In 2021, complaints of accidents involving foreign workers increased by 3.1% compared to 2020. This is what emerges from the new issue of the periodical Dati Inail, dedicated to the analysis of the accident trend of foreign workers.

Over 78% of the respondents were non-EU workers (+8.4% compared to 2017), and the remaining share were European Union workers (-13%). In 2021, there were 1,400 deaths, an increase of 18.5% from the previous year. The increase concerned both Italian workers (+201 cases, from 988 to 1,189) and foreigners (+18, from 193 to 211).

The sectors most affected: health, transport, storage and construction. More than half of the complaints concern workers in manufacturing, health, transport and storage, and construction, while the professions most affected are those of porters, truck drivers, stonemasons and bricks, packaging and warehouse personnel and workers in civil construction, which together reach a third of the total number of cases reported, a much higher percentage than that found for Italians working in the same tasks (12.6%).

Among foreign women, almost half of the injured (47%) are employed in health care, personal care, cleaning and as domestic workers. The most affected communities are Romanian, Albanian and Moroccan, with 36% of complaints in 2021.

For more information: https://www.inail.it/cs/internet/docs/alg-dati-inail-2023-aprile-pdf.pdf