Injury statistics

This page provides information on injuries reported under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) 1995 to the HSE and Local Authorities.

Fatal injuries

Fatal injury rates* to workers** in Motor Vehicle Repair(MVR)*** as reported to all enforcing authorities

Year	Number of fatal Injuries to workers in MVR	Fatal injury rate per 100 000 workers
		MVR	Manufacturing	Construction	Agriculture	All industries
2009/10	3	1.1	0.9	1.8	12.4	0.5
2010/11	5	1.9	1.0	2.3	9.9	0.6
2011/12p	6	2.4	1.1	2.3	9.7	0.6
3 year average	5	1.8	1.0	2.1	10.6	0.6

* Employment data is not available for rates calculation before 2009/10
** Workers = employees and self-employed
*** As defined by Standard Industrial Classification SIC 2007 code '4520'

Fatal injuries to workers in Motor Vehicle Repair (MVR)*** as reported to all enforcing authorities 2001/02 to 2011/12p

During the whole period from 2001/02-2011/12p, the kinds of fatal injury to workers were:

Fatal injuries to workers 2001/02 - 2011/12

Kind of fatal Injury to workers in MVR	Fatal injuries	Percentage
Hit by moving object/collapsing/overturning	17	27%
Hit by moving vehicle	14	23%
Fall from height	6	10%
Fire / explosion	6	10%
Contact with harmful substance	4	6%
Other known kind	9	15%
Unspecified or  unknown kind	6	10%
Electricity	2	3%
Slip or trip	2	3%
Hit against a fixed object	2	3%
Drowned or asphyxiated	2	3%
Explosion	0	0%
Contact with moving machinery	1	2%
Total	67

Kinds of fatal Injury to workers in MVR, as percentage of total 2001/02 to 2011/12p

Non-fatal injuries

The following table shows the numbers of non-fatal injuries in MVR reported to the HSE and Local Authorities (LAs), for the 3 years 2009/10 to 2011/12p.

The rates per 100,000 employees are also included in the second table.

Non-fatal RIDDOR injuries are those defined as Major (typically, fractures, amputations) and those defined as Over 3 day (injuries which led to 4 or more days absence from the employee’s normal work).

Before 12 September 2011, RIDDOR reporting was mainly by telephone to the Incident Contact Centre. Subsequently, reporting was primarily by an online based system via the HSE website. Consequently, there may be some discontinuities in data whilst this new system beds in. [For example the total numbers of injuries were substantially lower in 2011/12p than in the previous two years as shown in the table and “All other kinds and unknown” figure doubled in 2011/12p from the 2009/10 and 2010/11 figures.] Another effect of this change is to how the SIC codes were allocated.

From 2011/12 onwards, HSE will only be able to provide injury numbers for Majors and injuries leading to more than 7 days absence from the employee’s normal work.

RIDDOR reported non-fatal injuries to employees in Motor Vehicle Repair (MVR)* by kind of accident 2009/10 to 2011/12p

Kind	2009/10	2010/11	2011/12	Percentage of 3 year total
Lifting and handling injuries	544	435	303	33%
Slip, trip, fall same level	292	280	232	21%
Struck by object	256	211	170	16%
Fall from height	95	114	79	7%
Struck against	53	68	47	4%
Struck by moving vehicle	43	55	31	3%
Contact with machinery	42	42	41	3%
Exposure to harmful substance	37	34	14	2%
Exposed to fire	18	12	15	1%
Trapped by something collapsing	11	4	6	1%
All other kinds and unknown	70	76	149	8%

*As defined by Standard Industrial Classification SIC 2007 code '4520'

Non-fatal injury rates to employees in Motor Vehicle Repair (MVR) * as reported to all enforcing authorities 2009/10 to 2011/12p

Year	Nonfatal injuries (Major percentage in brackets)	Rate of injury per 100 000 employees
		Major	Over 3 day	Total injuries
2009/10	1 461 (26%)	152	529.2	682.1
2010/11	1 331 (25%)	138.2	502.7	642.8
2011/12	1 087 (28%)	129.3	437.3	568.7

* As defined by Standard Industrial Classification SIC 2007 code '4520'

Annual non-fatal injury numbers to employees in motor vehicle repair (SIC 4520)