The newspaper revealed in the spring that over 800 employees who were injured at work at the state-owned company, despite legal requirements, did not have their accidents reported.
After the investigation, Samhall announced that 1,500 accidents leading to sick leave had been reported retrospectively. The company now claims that it may have missed as many as 6,300 accidents, with and without sick leave.
Reports of work-related injuries are forwarded to the Work Environment Authority, which is responsible for the national statistics. According to the authority, over 1,700 of the reports submitted retrospectively are so incomplete that they cannot be used.
It's extremely serious that a large state-owned company mishandles this. It's even illegal, since employers are required by law to report all work-related injuries correctly, says Kjell Blom, system administrator at the authority, to Fastighetsfolket.
Samhall's press officer Maria Soläng tells the newspaper that they will investigate what went wrong.
It's of course important for a large employer like Samhall to do things right.
Corrected: An earlier version incorrectly stated the total figure from Samhall.
