"48,000 die due to occupational accidents yearly: Study", 20 November 2017

Nearly 48,000 workers die in the country due to occupational accidents, of which the construction sector contributes 24.20 per cent of the fatalities, says...[a study by] the British Safety Council, [Quoting the ILO]...[T]he workplace deaths in India is 20 times higher than in Britain.

It observed that as many as 38 fatal accidents take place every day in the construction sector in the country, while there were only 137 fatal incidents in all sectors in 2016 in Britain.

"India with 1.25 billion population has a strong workforce of 465 million. However, only 20 per cent of them are covered under the existing health and safety legal framework.

"Though there are laws to address these health and safety concerns, their implementation is a big task due to lack of adequate manpower," ... there is one factory inspector for 506 registered factories here...