Kinds of accident – fatal, major and over-3-day injuries (data)

Table 1: Number of fatal injuries to workers by kinds of accident

	93/94	94/95	95/96	96/97	97/98	98/99	99/00	00/01	01/02	02/03	03/04	04/05	05/06	06/07p
Falls from a height	81	79	64	88	92	80	68	74	69	50	68	53	48	45
up to and inc 2 metres	13	6	3	10	12	9	5	5	11	5	6	7	10	7
over 2 metres	58	63	56	70	71	70	58	69	44	38	52	38	26	32
height not stated	10	10	5	8	9	1	5	0	14	7	10	8	12	6
Struck by a moving vehicle	46	45	42	43	45	48	34	64	39	39	44	35	38	30
Struck by moving/ falling object	33	39	32	57	41	41	35	51	46	30	28	47	34	40
Trapped by something overturning/ collapsing	52	33	41	16	25	15	16	40	8	11	7	19	11	19
Drowning/asphyxiation	12	12	10	9	7	9	7	6	11	8	22	10	3	16
Total accidents (a)	296	272	258	287	274	253	220	292	251	227	236	223	217	241

Table 2: Number of major injuries to employees by kinds of accident

	96/97	97/98	98/99	99/00	00/01	01/02	02/03	03/04	04/05	05/06	06/07p
Falls from a height	5023	5382	5454	5500	5286	4066	3860	3896	3799	3385	3409
up to and inc 2 metres	2387	2593	3140	3196	3205	2174	2009	2127	2408	2230	2324
over 2 metres	1220	1392	1640	1616	1459	1079	983	845	872	675	700
height not stated	1416	1397	674	688	622	813	868	924	519	480	385
Slips, trips or falls on the same level	8562	8671	9007	9087	9054	10268	10458	11341	10895	10955	10790
Struck by moving/ falling object	4606	4739	4287	4370	3988	4016	3803	3939	3884	3617	3590
Injured whilst handling, lifting or carrying	2745	3002	2894	2862	2695	2948	3466	4324	4893	4397	4340
Total accidents (a)	27964	29187	28368	28652	27524	28011	28113	30689	30451	28914	28267

Table 3: Number of over-3-day injuries to employees by kinds of accident

	96/97	97/98	98/99	99/00	00/01	01/02	02/03	03/04	04/05	05/06	06/07p
Slips, trips or falls on the same level	24537	25883	26687	27615	28552	30106	30316	30919	27683	28034	26732
Struck by moving/ falling object	18283	18772	18029	18293	16892	16288	14796	15024	14144	12988	12768
Injured whilst handling, lifting or carrying	46366	50640	49044	48729	48327	48963	49809	53219	50737	48743	46152
Struck by something fixed or stationary	7324	7458	7023	6891	6631	6252	6067	6070	5496	5243	4921
Total accidents (a)	127286	134789	132295	135381	134105	129655	128184	131017	121779	119045	113083

(a) Total for all kinds of accidents, including those not shown.