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- As per the data of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), the deaths due to Causes such as ‘Traffic Accidents’, ‘Stampede’, etc., have increased, whereas the deaths due to ‘Air Crash’, ‘Collapse of Structure’, ‘AccidentalExplosion’, ‘Factory/ Machine Accidents’, ‘Firearms’, ‘Mines or Quarry Disaster’, etc., have decreased in 2019 as compared to the previous year 2018.
- Approximately 4,67,171 accidents were recorded in 2019, down from 4,74,638 in 2018. (However, the rate of deaths in road accidents per thousand vehicles, i.e. 0.6, has remained the same as in 2018). In Madhya Pradesh, between 2018 and 2019, the number of traffic accident cases increased from 49,080 to 53,379. Rajasthan (from 22,401 to 24,281) and Uttar Pradesh (from 40,783 to 42,368) also saw a spike in traffic accidents.
- (Misc. Causes include Collapse of Structure, Deaths due to Consumption of Illicit/ Poisonous Liquor, Accidental Explosion, Factory/Machine Accidents, Firearm, Mines or Quarry Disaster, Stampede, Air-Crash, Ship Accidents, Other than above and Unknown Causes)
- “Since May 2020, there have been thirty industrial accidents in India, killing at least 75 workers”, according to IndustriALL, a global union of workers. The data also suggests that “From 2014 to 2017, 8,004 such incidents took place in Indian workplaces killing 6,368 employees. Most such incidents occurred in Delhi, Maharashtra and Rajasthan”.
- The December 1984 Bhopal tragedy in which more than 3,000 people were killed when methyl isocyanate leaked out is one of the world’s worst industrial disasters. Some other industrial/chemical disasters in India were LG Polymers in Visakhapatnam, Delhi factory fire, NTPC Power Plant Explosion, Sivakasi firecracker factory, Indian Oil Corporation in Jaipur, Bhilai Steel Plant Gas Leak, etc.
