All told accidental workplace-related deaths totaled 71,983 people, an annual decrease of 4.7%. The death toll from work accidents every 100 million yuan ($160,000) worth of GDP was 0.142 people—a decline of 17.9%. Overall fatal industrial, mining and commercial workplace-related accidents caused 1.64 deaths out of every 100,000 employees—down 12.8% from 2011. Deaths from every 10,000 traffic accidents, meanwhile was 2.5 persons, down from 10.7% the year before.
