OCC1 Injuries to employees by occupation and severity of injury 2008/09p

As reported to all enforcing authorities

Occupation	SOC major groups	Fatal injuries	Non-fatal major injuries	Over-3-day injuries	All reported injuries	Fatal injuries: rate per 100 000 employees (a)	Major injuries: rate per 100 000 employees (a)	Over-3-day injuries: rate per 100 000 employees (a)	All reported injuries: rate per 100 000 employees (a)
Managers and Senior Officials	1	11	1 660	3 441	5 112	0.3	43.7	90.7	134.7
Professional Occupations	2	6	1 794	4 405	6 205	0.2	54.5	133.9	188.6
Associate Professionals and Technical Occupations	3	3	2 673	11 407	14 083	0.1	72.6	309.8	382.5
Administrative and Secretarial Occupations	4	-	1 118	2 828	3 946	-	35.0	88.5	123.5
Skilled Trade Occupations	5	37	4 001	13 205	17 243	1.8	196.2	647.7	845.7
Personal Service Occupations	6	2	2 807	11 704	14 513	0.1	127.0	529.4	656.4
Sales and Customer Service Occupations	7	1	1 804	7 174	8 979	-	84.4	335.6	420.0
Process, Plant and Machine Operatives	8	33	5 990	23 839	29 862	1.9	346.0	1 377.2	1 725.1
Elementary Occupations (b)	9	35	5 720	26 236	31 991	1.1	177.3	813.1	991.5
Not known		1	27	62	90	3.0	81.2	186.3	270.5
All Occupations		129	27 594	104 301	132 024	0.5	108.9	411.6	521.0

Notes

(a) The rates are calculated from the Labour Force Survey, by reportable injury per 100 000 employees.

(b) The elementary occupations category includes occupations not specified above in agriculture, construction, plant processing and services.

p Provisional

Source: RIDDOR - Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995