text: There have always been concerns in national or sectoral case studies about**underreporting of work**
  **accidents**for different reasons: accidents suffered by self-employed who are not obliged to notify or 
  are insured via private or non-occupational public health insurances, work-related traffic accidents that 
  are reported as traffic accidents only, declaration of less severe accidents as private to avoid 
  administrative burden, administrative burden in general. This leads to several approaches to estimate 
  the true number of accidents at work. Currently, these estimates result in figures of around 5.45 million 
  work accidents at EU27 level in 2019 for all economic sectors and all types of employment. That means 
  that the reported 3.14 million accidents represent approximately 57.5% of all work accidents resulting in 
  more than three days of absence, while 42.5% are not reported. 
  
  The pure distinction between fatal and non-fatal work accidents does not reveal that a very large part of 
  the human and financial burden is caused**by severe but not fatal accidents**. In 2019, 232,892 work 
  accidents resulted in an absence of more than three months or caused a permanent disability, compared 
  to 3,008 fatal accidents (NACE Rev. 2 activity A, C-N). That is, in addition to every worker who dies, 
  another 77 suffer injuries resulting in at least three months off work or in permanent disability. 