HSE accident statistics for the water transport industry and cargo handling

The following data is from reported accidents and ill-health 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:

• 61101 - passenger sea and coastal water transport
• 61102 - freight sea and coastal water transport
• 61201 - passenger inland water transport
• 61209 - other inland water transport
• 63220 - other supporting water 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 stevedoring, it also includes activities such as baggage handling onto aircraft.

Employee accident and ill-health numbers

Data sets are broken down into:

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

Reported employee accidents and ill-health from 2001 to 2008 for SIC codes 61101, 61102, 61201, 61209 & 63220

Year	Fatal	Major injury	Over  3 day injury
2001-2002	3	126	607
2002-2003	1	95	503
2003-2004	2	97	401
2004-2005	1	75	368
2005-2006	0	86	371
2006-2007	3	87	373
2007-2008p	1	104	337

Reported employee accidents and ill-health from 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	369
2007-2008p	1	61	414

• Accident statistics in the ports and water transport sector 2005-2008 [PDF 166KB]
  Summary report of accident statistics and causation produced for the industry by HSE Transportation Section from RIDDOR data.