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Five deaths on Swedish worksites sit outside Sweden's fatality rate
Temporary foreign workers are recorded separately because they remain in home-country insurance systems, leaving Sweden without the denominator needed to compare their risk.
A fatal accident on a Swedish worksite is not always counted in Sweden's workplace death rate. For temporary foreign workers, the reporting chain can end in another country's insurance system, leaving Swedish authorities with little evidence about the risks around them.
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