Overview
- Provisional ministry data show 686 fatalities from January to November 2025, down 7.4% year over year, with 550 deaths on the job (-8.2%) and 136 commuting (-4.2%).
- The leading recorded causes were heart attacks and strokes (233), followed by falls (92), entrapments or crushings and amputations (81), and traffic accidents (65).
- Construction bucked the trend with a 21.9% rise in on‑the‑job fatalities to 156, while the overall fatal incidence rate fell 10.2% but increased 18.2% in construction.
- Madrid’s IRSST reports 87,617 workplace accidents and 86 fatalities in 2025, including seven deaths in December—three during work (two non‑traumatic in services, one construction crushing) and four commuting traffic deaths.
- In Murcia, 34 workers died between January and November, 16 more than in 2024, as CC.OO. and UGT press for more inspection resources, legal updates, psychosocial risk recognition, and company mobility plans.