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Workplace accidents and deaths in Georgia: the record

Every published figure on fatal and non-fatal occupational injuries in Georgia since 2018, by year, sector and region, with rates and EU comparison.

Last updated: 3 October 2026

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Overview

Georgia did not systematically record workplace accidents between the abolition of the labour inspectorate in 2006 and the creation of an inspection department in 2015. Since 2018 the Labour Inspection Service has reported deaths and injuries each year. This page assembles every published figure, states its source, and shows where the record is missing. Definitions follow the Service's reporting: a workplace death is a death recorded by the Service as resulting from an accident at work; injuries are those reported to and recorded by the Service.

Key figures

32

Deaths in 2025 — all men; 21 in construction

Labour Inspection Service, via Georgia Today (2026)

179

Injuries recorded in 2025

Labour Inspection Service, via Georgia Today (2026)

59 → 34

Deaths 2018 → 2023 (−42%)

Labour Inspection Service; Fair Labour Platform data

3.03

Deaths per 100,000 workers, 2021 (EU standardised rate: 2.1 in 2024)

Fair Labour Platform; Eurostat

514 · 1,767

Deaths and injuries 2011–2022

Social Justice Center (2023)

Annual series

Deaths and injuries by year
Year	Deaths	Injuries	Source
2018	59	199	Labour Inspection data compiled by the Georgia Fair Labour Platform
2019	45	168	same
2020	39	249	same
2021	37 (33 per ETF–Eurofound)	253	same; ETF–Eurofound (2024)
2022	35	330	same; Labour Inspection Office report
2023	34	347	Labour Inspection Service report (InterPressNews)
2024	33	257	Reported by Georgia to ILOSTAT (INJ_FATL_ECO_NB, INJ_NFTL_ECO_NB)
2025	32	179	Labour Inspection Service report (Georgia Today)

Where sources differ (2021), both values are shown.

Rates

Rates per 100,000 workers
Year	Deaths per 100,000	Injuries per 100,000
2018	4.55	15.35
2019	3.47	13.33
2020	3.14	20.05
2021	3.03	20.78

Rates 2021–2024 as reported by Georgia to ILOSTAT: fatal 3.0 (2021), 2.73 (2022), 2.55 (2023), 2.35 (2024); non-fatal 20.8, 25.7, 26.0, 18.3. Source for 2018–2021: Georgia Fair Labour Platform (2024, archived copy). The EU-27 standardised fatal incidence rate was 2.1 per 100,000 in 2024 (Eurostat, hsw_n2_02); definitions differ, so the comparison is indicative.

By sector and region

Deaths and injuries by sector, 2019–2023
Sector	Deaths	Injuries
Construction	78	205
Manufacturing	24	234
Transport and storage	19	105
Mines and quarries	10	156
Wholesale and retail trade	4	120

Deaths and injuries by region, 2019–2023
Region	Deaths	Injuries
Tbilisi	54	424
Imereti	29	248
Kvemo Kartli	17	86
Ajara	9	40
Kakheti	9	20

Source: Georgia Fair Labour Platform (2024, archived copy), based on Labour Inspection Service data.

In 2023 all 34 deaths were men; of the 347 injured, 247 were men and 100 women; most deaths occurred in construction (Labour Inspection Service, via InterPressNews, 2024). In 2025 one accident killed four workers of a single organisation (Georgia Today, 2026).

How this compares internationally

Globally, the ILO estimates 2.93 million work-related deaths a year, of which 330,000 result from accidents and 2.6 million from work-related disease; 395 million workers sustain a non-fatal injury each year; agriculture, construction, forestry and fishing, and manufacturing account for 63% of fatal injuries (ILO, 2023). Georgia's published record counts accidents only: deaths from occupational disease are not recorded, which is the largest gap in the national picture.

Public health perspective (WHO)

Accident counts are the labour side of the picture. From a health-system view, injuries are a minority of work-related deaths: in the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates they cause 19% (360,000 of 1.9 million in 2016); the rest is disease — respiratory, cardiovascular and cancer — that no accident register captures (WHO and ILO, 2021). WHO's Global Plan of Action asks countries to build surveillance of work-related disease into their health information systems, alongside accident recording (WHA60.26). Georgia's record covers accidents only; the health side is absent. Workers' health: the public health perspective.

Two global estimates. The ILO estimates 2.93 million work-related deaths a year (2019 data, published 2023); the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates give 1.9 million for 2016 from 19 quantified risk factors and state that the true burden is substantially larger. The figures differ in method and scope, not in direction; GILS cites each with its source.

Data gaps

The 2024 figures (33 deaths, 257 injuries) are those Georgia reported to the ILO (ILOSTAT); the Labour Inspection Service's own 2024 report was not found in accessible sources.
No breakdown by sex, age or employment status after 2023; rates after 2021 are available only as reported to ILOSTAT (2.35 fatal and 18.3 non-fatal injuries per 100,000 workers in 2024).
No count of deaths from occupational disease; no occupational disease registry.
Accidents in the informal economy, which covers about 37% of employment, are largely unrecorded.
GILS updates this page and the open dataset after each annual inspection report and will assign a DOI to the dataset through the Georgian Medical Journal.

Open dataset

GILS Workplace Accidents and Deaths in Georgia, dataset v0.2 (5 October 2026): every figure on this page in machine-readable form, with its source, under CC BY 4.0. Download CSV. It is extended as further official figures are published; a DOI will be assigned through the Georgian Medical Journal.

GILS Research Team (2026). Workplace accidents and deaths in Georgia, dataset v0.2. Georgian Institute of Labour Studies, Public Health Institute of Georgia. labour.edu.ge/topics/osh/accidents-and-deaths/

Sources

Georgia Fair Labour Platform (2024). Workplace Death & Injury Statistics (archived copy). web.archive.org
Georgia Today (2026). Labour Inspection Service 2025 report. georgiatoday.ge
InterPressNews (2024). 34 deaths and 347 injuries in 2023 (in Georgian). www.interpressnews.ge
ETF–Eurofound (2024). Working life in Georgia. www.etf.europa.eu
Social Justice Center et al. (2023). Submission to the UN CESCR (archived copy). web.archive.org
ILO (2023). Nearly 3 million people die of work-related accidents and diseases. www.ilo.org
ILOSTAT. Occupational injuries, Georgia (INJ_FATL_ECO_NB, INJ_NFTL_ECO_NB, INJ_FATL_ECO_RT, INJ_NFTL_ECO_RT). ilostat.ilo.org
Eurostat. Fatal accidents at work by NACE activity (hsw_n2_02). ec.europa.eu

Figures are from the GILS Evidence Register and the official sources shown. GILS is independent of government, trade unions, employers' organisations and the ILO.