Accident and ill-health data for the air transport industry

Contents

• Accident and ill-health data by SIC
• Accident and ill-health cause by kind code
• Latest health and safety statistics

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The following data is from reported accidents and ill-health to employees as required by the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR). The data is based upon reports from those industries given the Standard Industry Classification (SIC) codes of:

• 62101 - scheduled passenger air transport;
• 62109 - other scheduled air transport;
• 62201 - non-scheduled passenger air transport;
• 62209 - other non-scheduled air transport;
• 63230 - other supporting air transport activities.

Data from SIC code 63110 (Cargo Handling) is provided separately as the code relates to the unloading and loading of goods or passengers’ luggage irrespective of the mode of transport. Whilst the code will include such activities as handling into aircraft, it also includes activities such as stevedoring.

Accident and ill-health data by SIC

Table 1 and Graph 1 show the reported employee accidents and ill-health over the period 2001 to 2008 for the SIC codes 62101, 62109, 62201, 62209 & 63239. Table 2 and Graph 2 show the same data for SIC code 63310. Both data sets are broken down into:

• fatal;
• major injuries;
• over 3-day injuries.

Table 1: Accidents and ill-health reported over the period 2001 to 2008 for SIC codes 62101, 62109, 62201, 62209 & 63230

Year	Fatal	Major injury	Over  3 day injury
2001-2002	0	150	1316
2002-2003	0	146	1407
2003-2004	0	151	1286
2004-2005	0	142	1224
2005-2006	0	157	1495
2006-2007	1	129	1440
2007-2008p	1	168	1508

Graph 1: Accidents and ill-health reported over the period 2001 to 2008 for SIC codes 62101, 62109, 62201, 62209 & 63230

Table 2: Accidents and ill-health reported over the period 2001 to 2008 for SIC code 63110

Year	Fatal	Major injury	Over  3 day injury
2001-2002	0	52	251
2002-2003	1	43	165
2003-2004	3	65	393
2004-2005	0	68	395
2005-2006	0	51	338
2006-2007	1	42	368
2007-2008p	1	61	414

Graph 2: Accidents and ill-health reported over the period 2001 to 2007 for SIC code 63110

Accident and ill-health cause by kind code

Graph 3 shows the total reported employee accidents and ill-health over the period 2001 to 2008 for SIC codes 62101, 62109, 62201, 62209 & 63230. The graph is broken down into kind code; the kind code classifies the incident by the main cause of the incident. Graph 4 show the same data for SIC code 63310.

Graph 3: Reported employee accidents and ill-health for 2001 to 2008 for SIC codes 62101, 62109, 62201, 62209 & 63230 by kind code

Table - Graph 3 Reported employee accidents and ill-health for 2001 to 2008 for SIC codes 62101, 62109, 62201, 62209 & 63230 by kind code
Accident	Percentage
Handling	50%
Sip or trip	21%
Hit by moving, falling object	10%
Hit something fixed or stationary	6%
Fall	4%
Hit by moving vehicle	3%
All other	6%

Graph 4: Accidents and ill-health reported over the period 2006 to 2007 for SIC code 63110 by kind code

Table - Graph 4: Accidents and ill-health reported over the period 2006 to 2007 for SIC code 63110 by kind code
Accident	Percentage
Handling	41%
Sip or trip	20%
Hit by moving, falling object	12%
Hit something fixed or stationary	10%
Fall	6%
Hit by moving vehicle	4%
All other	7%