Occupational accidents in Russia and the Russian Arctic

Figures & data

Table I. Number of occupational accidents in different industries, 2004–2010, Russia

Types of industry
	Total	Agriculture, hunting, forestry	Mining	Manufacturing	Production and distribution of electric energy, gas and water	Construction	Transport and communication
Thousands people
Total number of accidents
2004	87.8	19.9	5.5	32.3	3.3	7.1	8.5
2005	77.7	15.9	4.9	28.9	3.1	7.2	7.9
2006	70.7	12.9	4.2	27.1	3.0	6.6	7.4
2007	66.1	10.6	3.9	26.6	2.6	6.6	7.2
2008	58.3	7.9	3.3	23.8	2.4	6.3	6.6
2009	46.1	6.7	2.7	17.0	2.1	4.9	5.6
2010	47.7	6.1	2.8	18.7	2.2	4.6	5.9
Number of fatal accidents
2004	3.3	0.7	0.3	0.8	0.2	0.5	0.4
2005	3.1	0.6	0.3	0.8	0.2	0.5	0.4
2006	2.9	0.5	0.3	0.7	0.2	0.5	0.4
2007	3.0	0.5	0.4	0.7	0.2	0.6	0.4
2008	2.6	0.4	0.2	0.6	0.2	0.6	0.3
2009	2.0	0.3	0.2	0.4	0.2	0.5	0.3
2010	2.0	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.2	0.4	0.3
Per 1,000 workers
Total number of accidents
2004	3.4	5.8	5.1	3.9	1.9	4.4	2.4
2005	3.1	5.3	4.7	3.6	1.7	4.4	2.2
2006	2.9	4.9	4.0	3.5	1.7	4.1	2.0
2007	2.7	4.5	3.7	3.4	1.4	3.8	2.0
2008	2.5	3.9	3.3	3.2	1.3	3.6	1.9
2009	2.1	3.6	2.8	2.5	1.2	3.1	1.7
2010	2.2	3.6	3.0	2.9	1.3	3.0	1.8
Number of fatal accidents
2004	0.129	0.213	0.318	0.092	0.107	0.333	0.114
2005	0.124	0.198	0.279	0.096	0.107	0.312	0.112
2006	0.119	0.206	0.271	0.087	0.096	0.332	0.099
2007	0.124	0.215	0.389	0.085	0.116	0.346	0.099
2008	0.109	0.184	0.213	0.080	0.100	0.327	0.099
2009	0.090	0.173	0.191	0.065	0.086	0.284	0.076
2010	0.094	0.172	0.274	0.072	0.089	0.234	0.086

Fig. 1.  Occupational accidents in Russian Arctic regions compared to Russia (1980–2009), per 1,000 workers.

Fig. 2.  Fatal occupational accidents in Russian Arctic regions compared to Russia (1980–2009), per 100,000 workers.

Table II. Occupational fatal accidents for insured/covered people in circumpolar countries in 2001, per 100,000 employed

Rate of occupational fatal accidents
Finland	2.9
Sweden	1.9
Norway	3.2
Denmark	3.4
Iceland	1.7
Canada	6.4
USA	5.2
Russia	11.0