UN agencies: Work-related deaths kill nearly 2mil people a year

Nearly two million people die from work-related causes each year, including from illnesses associated with long working hours and air pollution, an estimate from UN agencies showed on Friday.

The study by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization, the first assessment of its kind, found that work-related diseases and injuries were responsible for the deaths of 1.9 million people in 2016.

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