DAMMAM — The General Organization of Social Insurance (GOSI) recorded 52,467 work-related accidents in 2014 at an average rate of 147 a day, Makkah Arabic daily reported on Sunday.
GOSI's statistics also show that 312 managers were injured at work, accounting for 0.6 percent of the total accidents last year.
Some 285 accidents were fatal, accounting for 0.5 percent of the total incidents recorded.
Only 53.1 percent of the victims received appropriate medical treatment and recovered fully despite the fact that all of the companies, institutes, and organizations surveyed adhere to safety regulations, provide health insurance and penalize violators of health and safety regulations.
Another 1,748 victims, accounting for 3.3 percent, did not receive the appropriate medical care, but were able to recover fully nonetheless.
The report also showed that only 5.7 percent of the victims were Saudis while the rest were expatriates.
The statistics show that more expatriates than Saudis occupy jobs that are considered dangerous.
The reports also showed that the most dangerous field of work is the construction industry, which accounted for 50.89 percent of the accidents.
Other dangerous industries include the commercial and raw material manufacturing sectors.
More than three quarters of the employees in the above industries are insured.
In addition, 71.9 percent of insured employees are engineers and service workers.
Engineers accounted for 51.9 percent of the accident victims, while 32.8 percent were employees in the services sector.
Employees in the Eastern Province, Riyadh and Makkah provinces accounted for 59 percent of the accidents because 65 percent of the workers in these regions belong to the commercial and construction industries and most of them are engineers and services workers, said GOSI.
The sectors with the lowest injury rates are the agriculture industry (0.5 percent) and sales industry (0.7 percent). Writers, translators and editors (1 percent), manufacturing experts (1.4 percent) and chemistry experts (3.6 percent) are also less vulnerable to injuries.
