text: **Figure 21: Development of the total number of non-fatal accidents at work and incidence rates (accidents**
  **per 100,000 workers), 1998 and 2019 – Eurostat**
  
  Still today we can see**incident rates above average in sectors**like construction and manufacturing, 
  wholesale and retail, transport and storage, and agriculture including forestry and fishing. These are 
  sectors where work with dangerous working conditions is quite common, that is, use or handling of 
  heavy or dangerous equipment (sharp, fast, moving, rotating, high-pressure, hot, etc.), work at height, 
  work on slippery ground, work with electrical equipment, transport and so on. 
  
  The ESAW statistics demonstrate that**sectoral differences are still very relevant**.141 The sectoral 
  incident rates differed between 1,448 for the sector ‘Public administration, defence, and compulsory 
  social security’ (Sector O) and are highest in ‘Construction’ (Sector F) at 3,211. In the period between 
  2010 and 2019 the rate for all sectors dropped from 1,799 to 1,603, that is, 11%. The sectoral rates 
  developed as follows: 