Turkey

Organization responsible for the statistics

Social Insurance Institutions.

Source

Reports of occupational injuries submitted to the Social Insurance Institutions for compensation.

Coverage

Persons:

Insured employees.

Economic activities:

All economic activities and sectors.

Geographic areas:

Whole country.

Establishments:

All sizes and types of establishments subject to the Social Insurance Act.

Types of occupational accidents covered

Reported injuries including occupational diseases.

Concepts and definitions

(Source: Social Insurance Act).

Industrial accidents:

accidents occurring during work or outside the workplace if work is required outside, or accidents occurring during the transportation of workers collectively from their residence to a workplace located at a distance or during their return from that place.

Occupational disease:

a temporary or permanent illness or invalidity caused by repeated exposure due to the work performed or caused by the conditions of work performed, in addition to illnesses indicated in Article 34 of the Regulation on Job Safety and the Preservation of Workers' Health.

Permanent incapacity for work:

the loss of all or part of the earnings capacity of the insured person in the particular occupation at the end of medical treatment following an industrial accident or occupational disease.

Minimum period of absence from work: not available.

Maximum period for death to be considered a fatal occupational injury: not available.

Classifications

(a) fatal or non-fatal, and time of death:

sudden death, death during period of temporary incapacity, death during period of permanent incapacity;

(b) extent of disability:

death, permanent incapacity to work (less than 10 per cent, 10-19 per cent, 20-29 per cent, 30-39 per cent, 40-49 per cent, 50 per cent or more), other;

(c) economic activity:

according to the national classification scheme which follows closely the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, Revision 2, at the division level;

(d) occupation:

none;

(e) type of injury:

type of injury and bodily location: fracture of cranium; fracture of backbone or other body bones; other fracture; dislocation; sprain or injury to muscle; traumatism of the head; bleeding in the chest, stomach or pelvis; cuts and grazes; superficial traumatism or contusion; burn; poisoning; unknown;

occupational disease: diseases due to carbon monoxide; diseases due to manganese and its compounds; diseases due to phosphor and its compounds; diseases due to organic phosphor compounds; diseases due to lead and lead salts; diseases due to halogenated aliphatic and alicyclic hydrocarbons; diseases due to benzene and its homologues; skin diseases not related to cancer; silicosis and silica tuberculosis; diseases caused by Thomas Scoria; occupational bronchial asthma; rie tuberculosis; diseases caused by ionic lights; loss of hearing ability due to noise; other;

(f) cause of accident;

(g) duration of absence from work:

none, 1-3 days, 4-7 days, 8-15 days, 16-30 days, 31-90 days, 91-180 days, 181-364 days, 365 days and over;

(h) characteristics of workers:

level of daily earnings (33 groups); age group (up to 14, 15 to 19, 20-24, 25-29, 30-34, 35-39, 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60 and over); sex; with or without dependents; seniority (1 day, 2-7 days, 8-30 days, 1-3 months, 3 months-1 year, 1-2 years, 2-5 years, 5-10 years, 10 years or more, unknown);

(i) characteristics of accident:

cause: motor vehicle accident; other transport accident; poisoning; fall; machinery; fire or explosion of combustible material; corrosive liquid, steam or radiation; fire-arms; drowning or submersion; other accidental causes; homicide or injury purposely inflicted by other persons; unknown cause;

time of accident: first working hour, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, unknown;

(j) characteristics of employers or workplaces:

size of establishment (1-3, 4-9, 10-20, 21-50, 51-100, 101-200, 201-500, 501-1000, 1001 or more, unknown);

(k) other:

region: regional directorates, section directorates and provinces.

Documentation

Series available:

The following tables are published:

Establishments covered by the Social Insurance Act, by:

region;
economic activity and province;

Establishments and persons insured, by:

regional directorate, sectional directorate and province;
economic activity and sector (public, private).

Workplaces and persons insured by type of work (permanent, seasonal and temporary), sector (public, private) and province.

Persons insured, by:

sex and province;
sex and economic activity;
level of daily earnings;
age group;
sex and with or without dependents.

Persons injured, occupational diseases, those with permanent incapacity to work and fatal injuries or diseases, by:

economic activity;
regional directorate, sectoral directorate and province.

Days of incapacity to work, days of incapacity in hospital and amount of cash benefits paid, by:

regional directorate, sectional directorate and province;
economic activity.

Persons injured, by:

level of daily earnings;
age group;
sex and with or without dependents;
cause of accident;
type of injury and bodily location;
size of workplace;
seniority;
time of accident;
duration of temporary incapacity to work and total incapacity.

Occupational diseases, by:

type of disease;
duration of temporary incapacity to work and total incapacity.

Cases of permanent incapacity to work, by:

type of incapacity (occupational injury or occupational disease);
age group;
sex;
degree of incapacity.

Deaths, by:

cause of death (occupational injury or occupational disease);
type of death (immediate, in period of temporary incapacity, in period of permanent incapacity);
age group;
sex.

Bibliographic references:

The data are published in:

Sosyal Sigortalar Kurumu (Social Insurance Institution): Istatistik Yilligi (Annual Statistics).

Istatistik Enstitusu (State Institute of Statistics): Turkiye Istatistik Yilligi (Statistical Yearbook of Turkey).

Data published by ILO:

The following data are furnished regularly to the ILO for publication in the Yearbook of Labour Statistics, relating to reported injuries (including occupational diseases) according to major division of economic activity: number of persons fatally injured, number of persons injured with lost workdays, total of these two groups; number of workdays lost by persons injured with lost workdays; rates of fatal injuries. The number of persons at risk is also supplied and stored in the LABORSTA database.