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Fatal injuries to employees, self-employed and workers by kind of accident and industry 2007/08

As reported to all enforcing authorities

Kind of accident	Employees					Self-employed					Workers
Kind of accident	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	1	-	10	3	1	2	-	-	-	-	3	-	10	3	1
Struck by moving, including flying/falling, object	4	2	7	9	6	6	-	-	1	2	10	2	7	10	8
Struck by moving vehicle	4	1	5	9	12	5	-	-	-	2	9	1	5	9	14
Strike against something fixed or stationary	3	-	2	1	3	1	-	-	-	-	4	-	2	1	3
Injured while handling, lifting or carrying	-	-	1	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1
Slips, trips or falls on same level	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	3
Falls from a height of which:	1	1	2	19	9	5	-	1	14	3	6	1	3	33	12
- up to and inc 2 metres	1	-	-	3	3	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	3	4
- over 2 metres	-	1	2	16	5	5	-	1	12	1	5	1	3	28	6
- height not stated	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	2	1	-	-	-	2	2
Trapped by something collapsing/overturning	2	1	3	5	2	1	-	-	1	2	3	1	3	6	4
Drowning or asphyxiation	2	2	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	2	-	3	-
Exposure to, or contact with, a harmful substance	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-
Exposure to fire	1	-	-	-	6	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	7
Exposure to an explosion	-	-	1	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	2
Contact with electricity or electrical discharge	2	2	1	2	2	-	-	-	1	-	2	2	1	3	2
Injured by an animal	-	-	-	-	1	3	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	1
Acts of violence	-	-	-	-	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7
Other kind of accident	-	-	-	1	8	1	-	-	1	-	1	-	-	2	8
Injuries not classified by kind	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	2	-	-	1	-
Total	22	9	32	53	62	24	-	1	19	11	46	9	33	72	73

(a) Excludes sea fishing
Source: RIDDOR - Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995