Abstract
In the 1908–1917 Italian Statistics on occupational mortality, the highest proportional mortality for accidents and violence included: falls among bricklayers, crushing among railwaymen, drowning for fishermen, explosions and asphyxiation in miners, burns in firemen, violence from animals among coachmen, frostbite among soldiers, lightning strikes in shepherds, electrocution in blacksmiths, sunstroke and snakebites for farmers, cuts for butchers.1 At that time, occupational mortality statistics were considered meaningful for occupational physicians and safety engineers, and for their responsibility in prevention: each occupation was linked to one accidental cause of death and one plausible explanation. Today, occupational exposures still provide convincing explanations for health inequalities, given that their social distribution is often skewed, with most exposed individuals belonging to the working … Correspondence: Giuseppe Costa, e-mail: giuseppe.costa{at}epi.piemonte.it
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