Fatalities due to occupational diseases or commuting accidents are not included.
injuries or diseases caused by accidents while working or on
duty (diseases are limited to the
disastrous
diseases, excluding food poisoning, communicable
diseases and occupational diseases).
workers killed by industrial accidents, including workers who died from industrial injuries as well as workers killed instantly in accidents.
Minimum period of absence from work:
not applicable.
Maximum period for death to be considered a fatal occupational injury:
none.
Yearbook of Labour Statistics, relating to reported injuries according to major division of economic activity: number of persons fatally injured.
Information on occupational injuries has also been collected
since 1952 by the Ministry of Labour through the Survey on
Industrial Injuries. It covers establishments in all sectors
with 100 or more regular employees (excluding those
establishments with only managerial and clerical workers) in
forestry, mining, construction, manufacturing, electricity, gas,
heat supply and water, transport and communication, wholesale and
retail trade, eating and drinking places and services (laundries,
automobile repair services, machine repair shops, building
maintenance services and waste treatment services). For general
construction, those sites for which the contract price is 120
million yen or more, or for which the workmen's accident
compensation insurance premium is one million yen or more are
covered. Data are collected for reference periods of six months
and a year. The survey is carried by mail, through labour
standards bureaux or labour standards inspection offices in each
prefecture. However, mines covered by the Mine Safety Law are
surveyed through the Environmental Protection and Industrial
Location Bureau and the regional mine safety and inspection
bureaux of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry. The
injuries refer to death, loss of a body part or partial
disability caused by accidents while working on duty, or absence
from work for one day or more (excluding the day of the accident)
for medical treatment. Frequency and incidence rates are
calculated. The data are published in
Japan Statistical Yearbook
(Statistics Bureau).
Monthly report on Workmen's Compensation Insurance
The Ministry of Labour compiles statistics on occupational injuries (excluding commuting accidents) for which compensation was paid, based on workmen's accident compensation insurance statistics.
Data are tabulated for the financial year, and are published
in the Annual Report of Statistics under Workmen's Accident
Compensation Insurance
. Data for the calendar year are tabulated
separately and presented in the Yearbook of Industrial Safety and
Health
(Japan Industrial Safety Association).
They are also published in Japan Statistical Yearbook
(Statistics Bureau). The data refer to compensated injuries
leading to an absence from work of four days or more.
Monthly statistics for Mine Safety
This comprises a report initiated in 1949 when the Mine Safety
Law was introduced, and covers all mines under the law. The data
collected refer to persons injured or killed while on duty.
Information is compiled separately for coal mines, metal and
non-metal mines and limestone mines, on the number of mines
operating at the end of December, the average annual number of
mining workers, total days and hours worked, total production (in
millions of tons), number of accidents, number of persons killed,
seriously injured or slightly injured, and days lost, and their
causes. Frequency and severity rates are calculated. The data
are published in Japan Statistical
Yearbook
(Statistics Bureau).