The total number of occupational injuries involving foreigners increased almost 2.5-fold between 2013 and 2023 (Table 1.1, Chart 1.1). This increase is related to the continuously increasing number of foreigners in the Czech Republic (see Chapter 1.2). A temporary decrease in the total number of occupational injuries was recorded in 2020 and 2021, apparently due to the downturn in economic activity during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the following year 2022, the total number of occupational injuries to foreigners increased sharply.
Looking more closely at the development of individual types of occupational injuries, we can see that the number of fatal occupational injuries (Table 1.1, Chart 1.2) from 2017 to the present fluctuates between 14 and 17 fatal occupational injuries per year, with the exception of 2018 (31 fatal occupational injuries), when a spike was recorded, however, that year a large-scale mining accident occurred, in which 12 Polish miners died in one day.
Between 2013 and 2023, there were on average 67.7 serious occupational injuries per year among foreigners (Table 1.1, Chart 1.3). The lowest number of these injuries was recorded in 2021, while the highest number was recorded in 2014. The evolution of the number of other occupational injuries (Table 1.1, Chart 1.4) follows the curve of the evolution of the total number of occupational injuries of foreigners.