War, with its space costs, does not at all cancel injuries in the workplace, especially if these jobs are related to war or its consequences.. What do the state budget, and therefore all of us, cost the current work-related injuries and occupational diseases? Only at the end of last year (latest data) the Social Insurance Fund paid off the debt for the payment of assistance for temporary disability in the amount of more than UAH 631 million; for temporary disability related to production - UAH 6.3 million; for burial — UAH 2.1 million.

And this is despite the fact that now some insurers in five regions have remained partially unfunded, where there are problems with payments due to the war..

More than UAH 900 million of monthly insurance payments were financed for victims at work and their families in January. In addition, from March 1, 2023, insurance payments to victims of an accident at work and persons entitled to monthly insurance payments in the event of the death of the victim were indexed by 19.7%.

Scale of losses.

Last year, the working bodies of the executive directorate of the Social Insurance Fund received and registered 16,000 reports of accidents or acute occupational diseases (poisoning). And although this is 47% less compared to 2021, but given how much economic activity has declined, there is no reason to rejoice..

True, if we count only those for whom the fund drew up acts related to production, then the statistics are much more modest: 4877 (of which 437 were fatal) victims of accidents or acute occupational diseases at work. Compared to 2021, the number of such cases decreased by 2.5 times, and fatally injured persons - by 18.6%.

Both men 2490 (51.1%) and women 2387 (48.9%) suffer almost equally. By age categories, the highest level of occupational injuries was observed among workers aged 50 to 59 years (26.3% of the total number of injured in Ukraine). Moreover, not so many were in a state of alcoholic intoxication: 92 people (1.9% of the total number of injured), but 43 people were injured with a fatal outcome.

Most insured accidents occurred in Kiev (12.1%), Dnipropetrovsk (10.9), Lviv (6.8), Odessa (5.9), Donetsk (5.8), Cherkasy (5.3),. These regions account for 56.7% of the total number of injured in Ukraine.

The main traumatic sectors of the economy and types of work include: health care - 52.7% (2020 injured, including. 31 - deadly); mining and quarrying - respectively, 12.1% (465 persons, including. 19 - deadly). Together with transport, warehousing, post and courier activities, the number of victims in these industries is 74.3% of the total number of injured.

And among the enterprises with the highest level of occupational injuries are PJSC DTEK Pavlogradugol (132 insured accidents), the municipal non-profit enterprise City Clinical Infectious Diseases Hospital in Odessa (68), the municipal non-profit enterprise Kirovograd Regional Clinical Hospital (64) and the municipal.

So, it is probably natural that last year the most injured were nurses (532 cases), general practitioners - family doctors (194), junior nurses for patient care (143) and paramedics of emergency medicine (121). True, there are also many drivers of motor vehicles (205 cases).

But something else is surprising here: among the causes of insured accidents, organizational ones predominate - 45.5%. 37% of accidents occurred for man-made, natural, environmental and social reasons, 13.1% for psychophysiological reasons, and 4.4% for technical reasons..

But the overall figures still say little about the state of affairs in these territories.. Everything becomes clearer from the studies of the working bodies of the executive directorate of the Social Insurance Fund. Considering that Ukraine is in a state of war, for the period from 24. 02. 2022 by 1. 01. In 2023, 392 reports of industrial accidents were registered that occurred during the performance of work duties and are related to the conduct of hostilities. 772 workers were injured, 221 of them died.

A significant number of such victims were registered in Kyiv - 161 people (including. 42 fatalities), Dnepropetrovsk region — 99 (32), Kharkiv region — 78 (16), Mykolaiv region — 76 (28), Donetsk region — 70 (12) and Zaporozhye region — 61 people (13), respectively.

Another problem is COVID-19. Last year, 12,387 such messages were received and registered, which is 77.4% of their total number in Ukraine. True, compared to 2021, this is half as much.. However, victims of ILI COVID-19 cases (when an act was drawn up in the form N-1 / P) related to production - only 37.1% of the total (compared to 2021, less than 4.8 times).

Most such cases were registered in Kiev (11.2%), Cherkasy (10.3), Odessa (8.8), Volyn (7.5), Lvov (7.4), Kiev (5.9) and Kirovohrad. The number of cases of acute occupational disease diagnosed with COVID-19 in these regions is 56.8% of the total number of injured in Ukraine.

Occupational diseases.

Occupational diseases were not shared anywhere: in 2022, the working bodies of the executive directorate of the fund received and registered 2482 reports of chronic occupational diseases (poisoning), which is almost 15% less than in 2021.

As for the largest number of occupational diseases, mining and quarrying are ahead (86.7% of the total number of occupational diseases in Ukraine). The already mentioned PJSC DTEK Pavlogradugol is in the first place (733 people). In general, the Dnipropetrovsk region accounts for 39.2% of people who received an occupational disease. Together with the miners of Lviv (21.5%) and Donetsk regions (18.5), this makes up 79.2% of the total number of victims of occupational diseases.

First of all, the reasons for this state of affairs were the imperfection of the technological process (30.7%), the failure to use personal protective equipment (13) and the imperfection of mechanisms and working tools (10.5%). In the structure of occupational diseases, respiratory diseases are in first place (41.6%), diseases of the musculoskeletal system (radiculopathy, osteochondrosis, arthritis, arthrosis) are in second place - 28%, and hearing diseases are in third place (24.4%).

Administrative penalties.

To change the situation in the territories of industrial injuries, the work of insurance experts investigating accidents, accidents and occupational diseases alone is not enough.. Of course, they carry out preventive measures aimed at reducing injuries and carry out checks on the creation of healthy and safe working conditions in enterprises..

Last year, 1983 such inspections were carried out, 14,753 violations of labor protection legislation were recorded, and submissions were made to employers. And although almost all violators received answers about the elimination of abuses, this is not consoling. After all, it is impossible to restore the health, and often the life of the victim.

Administrative penalties that are usually imposed on unscrupulous employers do not scare them much. Last year, 213 protocols on administrative offenses were drawn up only for untimely reporting of industrial accidents, about eight dozen complaints and applications from insured persons were considered.

The fact that the situation is not changing very much for the better is evidenced by the statistics for the first quarter of 2023 of the Main Department of the Pension Fund of Ukraine in. Kyiv, where 133 reports of accidents were received, as a result of which 148 people were injured, including 40 people with a fatal outcome.