The Girona regions closed the first quarter of 2026 with 19 serious work accidents, the highest figure in the last six years along with that of 2023. The data came in a start to the year with 2,528 accidents with sick leave in the demarcation and two fatalities.
The total number of accidents barely varied compared to 2024 and 2025, but the severity repeated the recent maximum. This combination leaves a gap between statistical stability and real damage at work, with special attention on sectors such as construction, hospitality, and the meat industry.
Girona equaled 19 serious accidents while the total remained stable
Between January and March, Girona registered 2,507 minor accidents, 19 serious ones, and two fatal ones, according to data from the Ministry of Labor and Social Economy. Of the total, 2,243 occurred within the workplace and 285 were accidents in itinere during the commute to work.
The majority of accidents, therefore, were concentrated within companies and not during commutes. Even so, accidents on the way to work maintain a relevant weight in the demarcation, with more than two hundred cases in just three months.
Maxi Rica, general secretary of UGT in Girona, places part of the problem in the organization of work and in the chain of companies involved in the same activity.
"There is a problem with subcontractors that generates a lack of preventive coordination" - Maxi Rica, general secretary of UGT in Girona
Rica also warned about the situation in construction and hospitality due to long working hours and the lack of established rest periods. UGT calls for strengthening prevention and giving more weight to psychosocial risks and mental health at work.
CCOO linked accident rates to the weight of services and tourism seasonality
Diana Estudillo, general secretary of CCOO in Girona, maintained that there are activities in the demarcation that are above the Catalan average in work accidents. She cited services, low-quality industry, the meat industry, and seasonality linked to tourism.
Her analysis coincides with that of UGT in the need to review prevention beyond formal compliance. Both trade union organizations ask to incorporate psychosocial risks into the focus of labor surveillance.
In the set of Catalonia, the first quarter ended with 23,024 work accidents with leave, 137 serious cases and 27 fatal victims. Eight of those deaths occurred on work journeys, while accidents in itinere reached 4,066, more than a thousand above those registered in 2021.
The comparison with the rest of Spain shows an uneven evolution. At the state level there were 143,833 work accidents with leave in the first quarter, with 170 deaths and 21,245 accidents in itinere, while serious accidents fell to 1,006 cases compared to 1,157 in 2024.
In Girona, on the other hand, the quarter ended with a figure that did not decrease in intensity despite the stability of the total volume, since the 19 serious accidents equaled the maximum of the last six years, the same record that had already been reached in 2023.