← on nowLGR-060 · v0.1.0 · model · estimate How many people are killed at work each year?
humans · Homo sapiens
killed at work
2.9 million
a year
0.092
a second
7,940
a day
of them, in accidents
330,000
a year
0.010
a second
903
a day
method ILO 2023 estimates: ~2.9M work-related deaths incl. disease; ~330k accidents; fishing from FISH Safety Foundation 2022.
- fishing is the deadliest job on earth: about 100,000 a year. mining, construction and farming follow.source: ILO 2023; FISH Safety Foundation 2022
- slaughterhouse workers are hurt at about twice the average rate. in the united states, an amputation about every week.source: US GAO 2016; OSHA severe injury reports
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how this number is built
- method
- ILO 2023 estimates: ~2.9M work-related deaths incl. disease; ~330k accidents; fishing from FISH Safety Foundation 2022.
- range
- 2.6–3.2 million/yr
- confidence
- estimate
- weakness
- occupational disease attribution is modeled; the fishing figure is an NGO estimate several times the old official one.
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