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15.11.2008 The key facts for 2007/08 are:
Ill health
2.1 million people were suffering from an illness
(long standing as well as new cases) they believed was
caused or made worse by their current or past work.
1.3 million of these cases were suffered by people
working during the year, of which 563 000 were new
cases. 2 056 people died of
mesothelioma (2006), and thousands more from other
occupational cancers and lung diseases.
Injuries
229 workers were
killed at work, a rate of 0.8 per 100 000 workers.
136,771 other injuries to employees were reported
under RIDDOR (which classifies the injury as "serious"
or reportable), a rate of 517.9 per 100 000 employees.
299 000
reportable injuries occurred, according to the
Labour Force Survey (LFS), a rate of 1000 per 100 000
workers
Working days lost
34 million days were lost overall (1.4 days per
worker), 28 million due to work-related ill health and 6
million due to workplace injury.
enforcement
1028 offences were prosecuted by HSE.
354 offences were prosecuted by local authorities.
Source HSE
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