Nifty 50 firms record 92 fatalities at their industrial operations in FY24

Number of such incidents has risen from 75 a year ago at the same set of firms

National Stock Exchange Nifty 50 companies failed to rein in the incidence of fatalities at their industrial operations in 2023-24 (FY24), with 92 lives lost during the period, higher than those recorded in the previous year.

 

Of the Nifty 50 companies (excluding banks, financial services, and technology companies), continuous three-year data related to fatalities at work were available for 29 companies.

 

Data compiled from the Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report show that these 29 companies reported 92 fatalities — employee lives lost in one or more incidents of accidents while undertaking their business operations — in FY24. These numbers include