A total of 565 workers have lost their lives in a workplace accident during the first nine months of the year, which represents 18 more fatalities than in the same period of 2025 and a relative increase of 3.3%, according to the provisional data released by the Ministry of Labour and Social Economy.
According to these preliminary figures from the Ministry, fatal accidents that occurred while working increased by 4.6% up to September, reaching 456 deaths, that is, 20 more than in the same period of 2025. Meanwhile, “in itinere” incidents resulting in death fell by 1.8%, with a total of 109 fatal victims, two fewer than a year earlier.
Within the fatal accidents recorded during working hours, the services sector accounted for the highest number of deaths, with 208 workers dead, twelve more than between January and September 2025.
Next came construction, with 137 deaths in workplace accidents, 17 more than up to September 2025, and industry, which recorded 65 deaths, representing 16 fewer than in the same period of the previous financial year.
Agriculture, for its part, was the activity in which the relative increase in fatal injury was most pronounced, with 46 deaths, 17.9% more than between January and September 2025.
505 fatalities were employees and 60 were self-employed
The Labour statistics explain that, of the 565 workers who died in a workplace accident up to September, 505 were employees, three more than in the same period of 2025 (+0.6%), while 60 fatal victims were self-employed workers, 15 more than in the first nine months of 2025 (+33.3%).
Of the self-employed workers who died in workplace accidents, 54 lost their lives during working hours, 16 more than in the same interval of 2025 (+42.1%), while six died in an “in itinere” incident, one fewer than the previous year (-14.3%).
Workplace accidents with sick leave increase
Accidents resulting in sick leave rose by 3.1% between January and September, to total 472,727 cases. Of these, 404,597 occurred at the workplace itself (+2.8%) and 68,130 were “in itinere” accidents (those that occur on the journey between the home and the workplace), with an interannual increase of 4.7%.
According to Work statistics, serious accidents during working hours rose to 2,683 by September, 4.3% less than in the same period of 2025, while serious "in itínere" incidents stood at 699, ten more than up to September 2025 (+1.5%).
As for minor accidents during working time, they increased by 2.9%, to a total of 401,458, while "in itínere" incidents classified as minor rose by 4.8%, to 67,322 cases.
Lastly, Work data show that up to September, 398,702 work accidents without sick leave were reported, a figure that represents a 1.3% decrease compared with the first nine months of 2025.