text: ***4.1.2 Serious non-fatal and fatal work accidents***
  
  Eurostat defines a fatal work accident as follows*: ‘A “fatal accident” means an accident which leads to*
  *the death of a victim within one year of the accident’.*160 
  Fatal commuting accidents are excluded, or when counted at national level, excluded from the ESAW 
  data. 
  
  In the last decade, most EU Member States registered a**significant decrease of fatal work**
  **accidents**.161 From 2010 to 2019, for the EU27, the**incidence rate of fatal accidents decreased over**
  **all sectors from 2.31 to 1.74**, or a minus of 25%. In the period between 2010 and 2019 the sectoral 
  figures of five major sectors developed as follows: 