Kinds of accident
The injury "kind" is a broad description of how the accident happened. Particular kinds of injury tend to be associated with different levels of severity, with little year-to-year change in the proportions of each kind.
In 2011/12p:
- Two-thirds of fatal injuries to workers were of four kinds: fall from height; being struck by a moving object; being trapped by a collapsing structure; and being struck by a vehicle. (RIDDOR)
- Electricity, fire, explosion or drowning/asphyxiation accidents together accounted for one in seven fatalities to workers but only one in 100 non-fatal injuries to employees. (RIDDOR)
- Falls and slips & trips combined made up more than half of all reported major injuries and almost a third of over-3-day injuries to employees. (RIDDOR)
- Handling injuries are the most commonly reported. Handling is the most frequent cause of over-3-day and the fourth most often reported kind of major injury. (RIDDOR)
- An estimated two million working days were lost due to handling injuries and slips & trips (LFS).
Estimated working days lost by kind of self-reported non-fatal injury, 2011/12 (LFS)
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