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Fatal injuries to employees, self-employed and workers by kind of accident and industry 2008/09p

As reported to all enforcing authorities

	Employees					Self-employed					Workers
	Agriculture, hunting, forestry & fishing (a)	Extractive & utility supply industries	Manufacturing industries	Construction	Service industries	Agriculture, hunting, forestry & fishing (a)	Extractive & utility supply industries	Manufacturing industries	Construction	Service industries	Agriculture, hunting, forestry & fishing (a)	Extractive & utility supply industries	Manufacturing industries	Construction	Service industries
Contact with moving machinery	2	1	7	2	2	5	-	-	-	1	7	1	7	2	3
Struck by moving, including flying/falling, object	2	2	8	3	7	-	-	-	2	4	2	2	8	5	11
Struck by moving vehicle	2	-	2	4	15	1	-	-	-	1	3	-	2	4	16
Strike against something fixed or stationary	1	-	3	2	1	1	-	-	-	-	2	-	3	2	1
Injured while handling, lifting or carrying	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Slips, trips or falls on same level	-	-	-	1	3	1	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	1	3
Falls from a height of which:	-	-	2	9	5	1	-	-	12	6	1	-	2	21	11
- up to and inc 2 metres	-	-	1	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	2
- over 2 metres	-	-	1	9	2	1	-	-	9	3	1	-	1	18	5
- height not stated	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	3	3	-	-	-	3	4
Trapped by something collapsing/overturning	1	2	4	3	3	3	-	-	-	2	4	2	4	3	5
Drowning or asphyxiation	-	-	1	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	2	-
Exposure to, or contact with, a harmful substance	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	1
Exposure to fire	1	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	1	-
Exposure to an explosion	-	1	1	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	2
Contact with electricity or electrical discharge	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	1	1
Injured by an animal	-	-	-	-	4	1	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	4
Acts of violence	-	-	1	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	3
Other kind of accident	1	-	2	6	2	1	-	-	-	-	2	-	2	6	2
Injuries not classified by kind	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	5	-	1	-	-	5	-
Total	10	6	32	33	48	16	-	-	20	15	26	6	32	53	63

(a) Excludes sea fishing
p Provisional
Source: RIDDOR - Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995
* From 2008/09, slips and trips down steps or stairs have been coded as falls from height rather than slips and trips. This has led to a discontinuity in both the slips and falls series.