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news on injury claims UK
The Health and Safety Commission (HSC) has
today released their annual statistics relating to
work-related ill health, workplace injuries and health
and safety enforcement in the UK.
The figures in some respects
were encouraging with the number
of people absent from the
workplace due to work related
illness or injury fell from 40
million in 2000-02 to 30 million
working days in 2005-06.
The number of people killed
in
accidents at work was also
down with 212 fatal injuries to
workers in 2005/06, a decrease
of 5% compared to 223 in
2004/05. Just over 40% occurred
in two industries: construction
(59) and agriculture, forestry
and fishing (33). Fatal injury
rates declined throughout the
1980s and 1990s. Reported
non-fatal major injuries to
workers fell for the second year
in a row to just under 30,000, a
drop of six percent on 2004/05.
The rate of injury was 110.1 per
100 000, down nearly 7% on the
previous year. Over one third
were caused by slipping and
tripping.
Agriculture and construction
remain the two most hazardous
industries, with average rates
of self-reported non-fatal
injuries to workers over the
past three years of 2,020 and
1,790 per 100,000 respectively.
There were 117 471 other
injuries to employees causing
absence of over 3 days. Two
fifths were caused by handling,
lifting or carrying. Source
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