Every year in Europe, more than 170,000 people die from occupational disease.
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- Omissions
- The claim does not specify the data source or reference year for the 170,000 figure.
- Eurostat's European Occupational Diseases Statistics (2025 edition) is the primary source for this data in the EU, but the specific figure could not be extracted from available search results.
- Two independent sources or one primary source confirming the exact figure of 170,000 could not be found.
- Sources
- PrimaryEurostat - European Occupational Diseases StatisticsEurostat maintains harmonised data collection on occupational diseases including deaths due to occupational disease, but specific annual figure of 170,000 deaths was not extracted from the available document summary
- SecondaryWHO/ILO - Work-related deaths estimatesGlobally, 1.9 million people died from work-related causes in 2016, of which 81% (1.54 million) were due to non-communicable diseases including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, stroke, and ischemic heart disease linked to occupational risk factors