JISHA: Situation of Occupational Diseases in Japan in 2022 (Diseases / Industry)

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Situation of Occupational Diseases in Japan in 2022 (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	284	225	10	0	0	63	27	0	1	6	1	0	26	4	0	31	0	808	806	0	0	0	1	3	4	1,242	436	Manufacturing	Food products
	Fiber/textile products	20	14	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	154	152	0	0	0	0	0	0	177	25		Fiber/textile products
	Wood/furniture products	21	19	0	0	0	5	5	0	0	1	0	0	7	2	0	1	0	127	127	0	0	0	0	0	0	164	37		Wood/furniture products
	Pulp/paper processing/printing/bookbinding	47	36	0	0	0	9	8	1	0	3	0	0	3	1	0	1	0	229	229	0	0	0	0	0	2	296	67		Pulp/paper processing/printing/bookbinding
	Chemical products	98	77	0	0	0	20	9	2	2	2	0	0	5	1	0	28	0	259	259	0	1	1	0	2	0	421	162		Chemical products
	Sand and stone products	32	25	0	0	0	13	12	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	17	126	126	0	0	0	0	0	0	191	65		Sand and stone products
	Steel/nonferrous metal making	40	31	0	0	0	31	13	0	0	2	0	0	2	0	2	3	6	206	206	0	1	0	0	0	0	293	87		Steel/nonferrous metal making
	Metal products	91	75	0	0	0	16	15	0	1	2	0	2	5	4	1	20	10	353	353	0	0	0	0	1	1	507	154		Metal products
	Machine/electrical equipment/transport equipment products	251	213	3	0	0	39	38	1	1	2	1	0	18	5	0	28	17	1,163	1,161	0	0	0	1	3	6	1,539	378		Machine/electrical equipment/transport equipment products
	Electric/gas/water service	5	4	0	0	0	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	523	523	0	0	0	0	0	0	531	8		Electric/gas/water service
	Other manufacturing	76	59	0	0	0	18	14	0	1	0	0	1	6	2	0	6	3	256	255	0	0	0	0	1	1	371	116		Other manufacturing
	Sub-total of manufacturing	965	778	13	0	0	218	145	6	6	18	2	3	72	21	3	119	53	4,204	4,197	0	2	1	2	10	14	5,732	1,535		Sub-total of manufacturing
Mining		3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	16	15	15	0	0	0	0	0	1	35	20	Mining
Construction		370	213	0	0	1	182	179	3	8	5	0	3	6	7	3	43	48	2,775	2,766	0	0	0	4	5	14	3,477	711	Construction
Transportation service		901	746	0	0	10	141	125	1	5	23	6	0	11	25	0	8	0	1,533	1,526	0	0	0	17	2	8	2,691	1,165	Transportation service
Cargo handling service		170	154	0	0	0	17	13	0	3	4	0	0	9	7	0	1	0	194	194	0	0	0	1	0	3	409	215	Cargo handling service
Agriculture/fishery		139	88	1	0	2	36	36	0	2	2	0	1	5	0	0	11	0	227	215	0	0	0	0	0	7	433	218	Agriculture/fishery
Commerce/financial business/advertisement		1,432	1,234	2	0	2	121	98	0	4	36	8	0	47	22	0	18	0	4,110	4,100	0	0	0	6	10	15	5,833	1,733	Commerce/financial business/advertisement
Health and hygiene service		2,228	2,050	0	0	0	31	22	0	6	31	8	0	27	25	0	14	0	138,853	138,752	0	0	0	8	35	23	141,289	2,537	Health and hygiene service
Hotel/restaurant/amusement service		341	284	0	0	0	88	27	1	4	4	3	1	25	16	0	11	0	1,425	1,419	0	0	0	3	7	9	1,938	519	Hotel/restaurant/amusement service
Commercial cleaning and livestock process		227	176	0	0	0	62	58	1	0	10	0	0	7	5	0	26	0	474	472	0	0	0	1	1	6	820	348	Commercial cleaning and livestock process
Others		305	235	3	0	1	132	124	0	2	12	4	2	9	7	0	4	3	2,339	2,333	0	0	0	1	4	10	2,838	505	Others
Total		7,081	5,959	19	0	16	1,028	827	12	40	145	31	10	218	135	6	255	120	156,149	155,989	0	2	1	43	74	110	165,495	9,506	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 source:
Reports of Occupational diseases in Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare,
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/newpage_34778.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.

Original Japanese data writhen in Japanese:
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/11300000/001136585.xls Open in the new tab
Translated excel data including number of fatal:
https://www.jisha.or.jp/english/statistics/pdf/2022_occupational_diseases.xls
Translated by JISHA from Web site of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan

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