Statistics

Which sector has the most occupational accidents?

Construction has the most occupational accidents: in SGK's 2025 data, building construction (NACE 41) leads with 51,927 accidents, followed by food and beverage service activities with 50,225 and food product manufacturing with 43,649. Building construction also leads in deaths with 360; the three construction divisions together carry 586 deaths.

Top ten divisions by accident count

SGK publishes sector statistics at NACE division level (two digits). The table below shows 2025 reports for schemes 4/a and 4/b together; sector pages use the same method for their totals.

NACE divisionAccidentsDeaths
41 · Construction of buildings51,927360
56 · Food and beverage service activities50,22539
10 · Manufacture of food products43,64951
55 · Accommodation43,63334
47 · Retail trade40,57064
86 · Human health activities36,43619
25 · Manufacture of fabricated metal products35,11143
13 · Manufacture of textiles31,76845
81 · Services to buildings and landscape activities28,69546
52 · Warehousing and support activities for transportation28,42537

The fatality ranking is different

The place with the most accidents is not automatically the place with the most deaths. By deaths the order is: construction of buildings 360, land transport and transport via pipelines 289, civil engineering 145, specialised construction activities 81, and manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products 66. Adding the three construction divisions (41, 42, 43) gives 82,024 accidents and 586 deaths — 30.1% of all occupational accident deaths in the country.

Accommodation and food service draw the opposite profile: 93,858 accidents and 73 deaths. High accident volume, low fatality share.

Occupational disease has its own ranking

Manufacture of other non-metallic mineral products leads occupational disease reports with 100 cases, followed by manufacture of motor vehicles with 78 and basic metals with 54. The national total is 916 cases.

Your own sector table

Sector views are not a partition: the same NACE code can appear in more than one view, so sector totals are never added to each other.

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