ABSTRACT
In Chapter 2, we explored the extent to which we can treat official statistics on deaths and injuries at work as accurate, and argued that, whatever the limitations of the data, it is clear that occupational injuries constitute a major social problem. We have also argued that injuries and deaths at work are generally misrepresented when cast as ‘accidents’ — a label that has a series of problematic specific connotations and social effects. But our considerations thus far have not established the extent to which, occupational deaths and injuries can be regarded as crimes.
