JISHA: Situation of Occupational Diseases in Japan in 2023 (Diseases / Industry)

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Situation of Occupational Diseases in Japan in 2023 (Diseases / Industry)

Type of occupational diseases		Diseases due to occupational injuries		Diseases due to physical factors							Diseases due to work forms					(13) Anoxia	(14) Diseases due to chemical substances (excluding cancer)	(15) Pneumoconiosis and complications (only absent)	Diseases due to pathogenic organisms		Cancer			(20) Cerebrovascular disease, heart disease, etc. due to overwork	(21) Mental disorder due to serious occupational psychological burden	(22) Other diseases evidently due to occupational causes	Total	Total except Covid-19	Type of occupational diseases
Large Industry	Middle Industry	(1) Diseases due to occupational injuries	Backache resulting from accident in left	(2) Diseases due to hazardous rays	(3) Diseases due to ionizing radiation	(4) Diseases due to abnormal atmospheric pressure	(5) Diseases due to abnormal temperature	Heat stroke in left	(6) Ear diseases due to noise	(7) Diseases due to factors other than (2) to (6)	(8) Diseases of locomotion and internal organs due to heavy and excessive work load	(9) Occupational lower back pain excluding that caused by occupational injuries	(10) Diseases due to vibration	(11) Disorders in fingers and forearms, and cervicobrachial disorder	(12) Diseases due to causes other than (8) to (11)	(13) Anoxia	(14) Diseases due to chemical substances (excluding cancer)	(15) Pneumoconiosis and complications (only absent)	(16) Diseases due to pathogenic organisms	Occupational Diseases due to COVID-19 in left	(17) Cancer due to ionizing radiation	(18) Cancer due to chemical substances	(19) Cancer due to causes other than (17) and (18)			(22) Other diseases evidently due to occupational causes	Total	Total except Covid-19	Large Industry	Middle Industry
Manufacturing	Food products	294	230	0	0	0	81	53	0	2	3	3	0	23	7	0	38	0	72	71	0	0	0	3	3	8	537	466	Manufacturing	Food products
	Fiber/textile products	18	16	0	0	0	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	10	10	0	0	0	0	1	1	35	25		Fiber/textile products
	Wood/furniture products	32	26	0	0	0	10	8	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	9	9	0	0	0	0	1	1	57	48		Wood/furniture products
	Pulp/paper processing/printing/bookbinding	46	41	0	0	0	8	7	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	3	0	21	18	0	0	0	0	1	1	83	65		Pulp/paper processing/printing/bookbinding
	Chemical products	113	84	0	0	0	29	27	2	0	0	1	0	4	4	1	41	3	53	53	0	0	0	1	4	1	257	204		Chemical products
	Sand and stone products	38	28	0	0	0	13	11	1	0	2	0	0	1	1	0	1	12	11	11	0	2	0	0	0	2	84	73		Sand and stone products
	Steel/nonferrous metal making	33	25	0	0	0	36	13	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	11	21	21	0	0	0	1	3	4	115	94		Steel/nonferrous metal making
	Metal products	139	107	2	0	0	36	32	0	0	2	2	0	6	3	0	17	8	55	54	0	0	0	0	1	5	276	222		Metal products
	Machine/electrical equipment/transport equipment products	264	220	4	0	0	56	47	0	2	3	1	1	27	11	0	19	6	211	211	0	0	0	1	6	1	613	402		Machine/electrical equipment/transport equipment products
	Electric/gas/water service	7	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	15	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	24	9		Electric/gas/water service
	Other manufacturing	106	77	0	0	0	31	29	0	0	0	0	1	6	3	0	9	5	9	8	0	0	0	0	3	3	176	168		Other manufacturing
	Sub-total of manufacturing	1,090	856	6	0	0	305	231	3	5	11	7	2	69	32	1	136	45	487	481	0	2	0	6	23	27	2,257	1,776		Sub-total of manufacturing
Mining		4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	13	Mining
Construction		351	191	0	0	2	224	209	1	8	0	6	2	11	9	2	53	42	157	148	0	1	0	6	5	19	899	751	Construction
Transportation service		903	719	0	0	34	142	135	2	6	28	7	0	22	19	0	8	0	299	294	0	0	0	18	8	14	1,510	1,216	Transportation service
Cargo handling service		165	136	0	0	0	39	27	0	0	3	0	0	6	4	0	0	0	9	7	0	0	0	1	2	0	229	222	Cargo handling service
Agriculture/fishery		156	82	0	0	1	49	48	0	2	2	0	0	5	3	0	7	0	14	8	0	0	0	0	0	1	240	232	Agriculture/fishery
Commerce/financial business/advertisement		1,430	1,229	1	0	1	184	154	0	8	16	6	0	61	31	0	28	0	523	511	0	1	0	12	27	31	2,360	1,849	Commerce/financial business/advertisement
Health and hygiene service		2,403	2,194	0	0	0	44	33	0	2	32	7	0	30	37	0	11	0	31,833	31,617	0	0	0	6	57	25	34,487	2,870	Health and hygiene service
Hotel/restaurant/amusement service		377	284	0	0	0	108	43	1	3	8	1	0	29	25	0	13	0	191	181	0	0	0	4	11	8	779	598	Hotel/restaurant/amusement service
Commercial cleaning and livestock process		270	207	0	0	0	61	61	1	2	5	2	0	5	4	1	15	0	72	69	0	0	0	5	3	3	449	380	Commercial cleaning and livestock process
Others		334	232	1	0	0	167	165	0	4	8	3	0	11	12	0	8	2	331	321	0	0	0	5	7	17	910	589	Others
Total		7,483	6,132	8	0	38	1,323	1,106	8	40	114	39	4	249	176	4	279	97	33,916	33,637	0	4	0	63	143	145	44,133	10,496	Total
Type of occupational diseases		Diseases due to occupational injuries		Diseases due to physical factors							Diseases due to work forms					(13) Anoxia	(14) Diseases due to chemical substances (excluding cancer)	(15) Pneumoconiosis and complications (only absent)	Diseases due to pathogenic organisms		Cancer			(20) Cerebrovascular disease, heart disease, etc. due to overwork	(21) Mental disorder due to serious occupational psychological burden	(22) Other diseases evidently due to occupational causes	Total	Total except Covid-19	Type of occupational diseases
Large Industry	Middle Industry	(1) Diseases due to occupational injuries	Backache resulting from accident in left	(2) Diseases due to hazardous rays	(3) Diseases due to ionizing radiation	(4) Diseases due to abnormal atmospheric pressure	(5) Diseases due to abnormal temperature	Heat stroke in left	(6) Ear diseases due to noise	(7) Diseases due to factors other than (2) to (6)	(8) Diseases of locomotion and internal organs due to heavy and excessive work load	(9) Occupational lower back pain excluding that caused by occupational injuries	(10) Diseases due to vibration	(11) Disorders in fingers and forearms, and cervicobrachial disorder	(12) Diseases due to causes other than (8) to (11)	(13) Anoxia	(14) Diseases due to chemical substances (excluding cancer)	(15) Pneumoconiosis and complications (only absent)	(16) Diseases due to pathogenic organisms	Occupational Diseases due to COVID-19 in left	(17) Cancer due to ionizing radiation	(18) Cancer due to chemical substances	(19) Cancer due to causes other than (17) and (18)			(22) Other diseases evidently due to occupational causes	Total	Total except Covid-19	Large Industry	Middle Industry

Data sources:
Reports of Occupational diseases in Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare,
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/newpage_42739.html Open in the new tab

(Notes)

The table counts occupational diseases in 4 days absence or more including fatal.
Type of diseases is based on article 35 of Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labour Standards Act.
https://www.jisha.or.jp/international/topics/202104_01.html
Number of fatal diseases is not described in this table.
"Chemical substances" are based on no. 7 of Appended table 1-2 of Ordinance for Enforcement of the Labour Standards Act.
Numbers of this statistics are based on diseases occurred in 2022 reported until end of March in 2023.

Translated excel data including number of fatal:
https://www.jisha.or.jp/english/statistics/xlsx/2023_occupational_diseases.xls Open in the new tab
Translated by JISHA from Web site of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan

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