Mortality index due to occupational accidents in Cuba is triggered, according to official figures

Although occupational accidents in Cuba dropped 37.7% in 2024, the number of deaths for this cause remained in 52 for the third consecutive year, considerably raising the mortality index, according to data released last week by the state national office of statistics and information (ONEI).

The mortality coefficient, or index of deaths per thousand injured, shot at 33.7 to 53.3 points, points the annual report of the Onei, «work protection. selected indicators».

According to official data, in 2024 934 accidents occurred in the workplace on the island, 564 less than the 1,498 of 2023. The number of injured workers, from 1,545 in 2023 to 975 in 2024 in 2024, also decreased, for a 36.9% less.

The construction sector had the highest mortality rate, with 8 deaths in the year. According to the ONEI, other sectors such as those of the supply of electricity, gas and water and agriculture, livestock, hunting and forestry counted seven deaths each.

The largest amount of accidents occurred in the public health and social assistance sector, with 169, while the manufacturing industry registered 156 claims.

Havana was the most affected province, with a total of 324 labor accidents, 34.6% of those that occurred throughout the country, and a balance of 341 injured and eight deaths. Santiago de Cuba, on the east of the island, had the greatest amount of deaths, with a total of nine.

The majority of those injured by this cause in the country were men, with 69.1 %, while 30.9 % corresponded to women.

Experts point out that ONEI’s figures on occupational accidents They are not reliable. «The Cuban regime has manipulated statistics for 65,» the economist Joel Brito, director of the International Group for Corporate Social Responsibility in Cuba, settled in Miami, told Martí news to Martí News.

According to Brito, Cuba is not governed by the system implemented by the International Labor Organization to register labor accidents, which covers data compilation such as non -fatal, fatal professional lesions, days lost by cases of professional injury that led to a temporary disability, non -fatal professional injuries according to type of disability and economic activity, among other indicators.

«When there is a traffic accident where workers go, workers die, they do not put it as an accident at work, even if the bus or, the truck or the means of injured transport is taking workers to a company and classify it as a traffic accident and not as a work accident,» said the expert.

In a survey conducted in 2024 by the Independent Trade Union Association of Cuba, the main causes of occupational accidents, registered in Al Isla were the lack of protection of the workers, the lack of lighting and the accumulated dream due to the blackouts, the latter, a cause that could prevail this year, with the electro -enemerical crisis that the country is going through.