El Salvador

Organization responsible for the statistics

Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social (Social Security Institute of El Salvador).

Source

Insurance records.

Coverage

Persons:

Insured persons; excluding own-account agricultural workers, domestic service workers, paid employees in public service and casual workers.

Economic activities:

All activities, with the exception of the public sector.

Geographic areas:

The whole country.

Establishments:

Not available.

Types of occupational accidents covered

The statistics cover compensated injuries due to all types of occupational accidents, including commuting accidents.

Concepts and definitions

Not available.

Minimum period of absence from work: not available.

Maximum period for death to be considered a fatal occupational injury: not available.

Classifications

(a) fatal or non-fatal accidents;

(b) extent of disability;

(c) economic activity: according to the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, (ISIC, Revision 2) (major divisions);

(d) occupation:

professionals, technicians and related workers, directors and senior government officials, administrative staff and related workers, merchants and sales staff, service workers, agricultural workers, fishery workers, hunters and forestry workers, non-agricultural workers, machine operators, transport vehicle drivers and related workers;

(e) type of injury:

amputations, asphyxia, contusions and abrasions, cuts, lacerations, concussions, foreign bodies entering the eye, fragments and foreign bodies, electrical shock, dislocations, fractures, hernias, punctures, burns and scalds, chemical burns, sprains or strains, other injuries, poisonings;

part of body injured: skull, eyes, face, ears, nose, mouth, neck, back, spinal column, lumbar column, shoulders, chest, ribs, upper arm, forearm, wrist, hand, finger, abdomen, hip, gluteus, genitals, groin, thigh, knee, lower leg, ankle, foot, toe, unknown;

(f) cause of accident:

agency: machinery, vehicles, animals, transmission machinery, electrical equipment, hand tools, work surfaces, chemical substances, hot or inflammable objects or substances, dusts or flying fragments, radiations or radioactive substances, prime-movers and pumps, elevators, lifting machines, means of transport, boilers and containers, other agencies;

(g) duration of absence from work:

not applicable;

(h) characteristics of workers:

age groups: 15 or younger, 16-20, 21-25, 26-30, 31-35, 36-40, 41-45, 46-50, 51-55, 56 and older;

(i) characteristics of accidents:

type of accident: striking against object, caught in, under or between objects, falls of persons on the same level, falls of persons from heights or into depths, overexertion, contact with extreme temperatures, contact with toxic substances, contact with radiations, other type of accident, insufficient information;

time of day: 6-7 a.m., 7-8 a.m., 8-9 a.m., 9-10 a.m., 10-11 a.m., 11-12 a.m., 12 a.m.-1 p.m., 1-2 p.m., 2-3 p.m., 3-4 p.m., 4-5 p.m., 5-6 p.m., 6-7 p.m., 7-8 p.m., 8-9 p.m., 9-10 p.m., 10-11 p.m., 11-12 p.m., 12 p.m.-1 a.m., 1-2 a.m., 2-3 a.m., 3-4 a.m., 4-5 a.m., 5-6 a.m.;

month;

(j) characteristics of employers or workplaces:

not applicable;

(k) other classifications:

department.

Documentation

Series available:

The following tables are published:

Number of persons fatally injured:

Bibliographic references:

The data are published in:

Ministerio de Trabajo y Previsión Social: Estadísticas del Trabajo.

Data published by ILO:

The following data on compensated injuries (including commuting accidents) are furnished regularly to the ILO for publication in the Yearbook of Labour Statistics: the number of persons fatally injured, the number of persons injured with lost worktime, and the total of both groups; the number of workdays lost by injured persons with lost worktime; rates of fatal injuries. The number of persons fatally injured and the number of lost work days by injured persons who lost worktime are classified by major division of economic activity. The number of persons at risk (total number of insured persons) was also supplied and stored in the LABORSTA database.