Work is three times as deadly as war, says UN

Andrew Osborn in Brussels- The Guardian

Thursday May 2, 2002

It's official: work can be fatal - and, according to a United Nations report, it brings about more death and suffering than wars or drug and alcohol abuse combined.

More than two million people die from work-related accidents or disease every year - equivalent to one death every 15 seconds - the UN's International Labour Organisation said this week. Two years ago, the figure was just 1.2 million.

The ILO named agriculture, construction and mining as the three most dangerous occupations in the world.

The total is now three times the annual number of deaths in wars every year (650,000), or the equivalent of a September 11 tragedy every day. It also exceeds deaths from alcohol and drug abuse combined.

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