Fatalities certainly aren't the whole story, but they do have one "advantage": they cannot be hushed away, at least not in the Western world. (In China or Russia, well...)
That is why, in an analogical situation, crime and public safety of individual countries is often compared using murder levels. It is expected that most developed countries cannot really suppress/fudge murder statistics, even though they can do a lot of shenanigans around registration of lesser crime.
I can see a similar situation with individual corporations and their diligence when it comes to reporting injuries.
Even murder statistics aren't foolproof when comparing crime rates across different countries and time periods, because of differences in medical care standards. Someone can be shot several times in the modern West and recover, but 200 years ago or in a poor country (or maybe in a more remote location) the same person would not survive and it would count as a homicide.
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Fatalities certainly aren't the whole story, but they do have one "advantage": they cannot be hushed away, at least not in the Western world. (In China or Russia, well...)
That is why, in an analogical situation, crime and public safety of individual countries is often compared using murder levels. It is expected that most developed countries cannot really suppress/fudge murder statistics, even though they can do a lot of shenanigans around registration of lesser crime.
I can see a similar situation with individual corporations and their diligence when it comes to reporting injuries.
Even murder statistics aren't foolproof when comparing crime rates across different countries and time periods, because of differences in medical care standards. Someone can be shot several times in the modern West and recover, but 200 years ago or in a poor country (or maybe in a more remote location) the same person would not survive and it would count as a homicide.