Housing: Accidents
(asked on 14th April 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, what information (a) her Department and (b) the Health and Safety Executive hold on the number of fatal falls from residential buildings in the last 10 years.
As the regulator for workplace health and safety the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) collects information on fatal injuries resulting from work-related accidents. Data compiled by HSE identifies the number of work-related fatal injuries resulting from falls from height however this data is not held in a way that identifies what the injured person fell from. HSE does not hold information on fatal falls from height that are not work-related.
Statistics for work-related fatal injuries are published by HSE on the HSE website. Published statistics for work-related fatal injuries to workers resulting from falls from height for 2011/12 to 2020/21 (provisional) are as follows:
| Number of fatal injuries from falls from height for: | ||
| |||
| Workers | Of which… | |
Year |
| Employees | Self-employed |
2011/12 | 38 | 14 | 24 |
2012/13 | 49 | 26 | 23 |
2013/14 | 45 | 25 | 20 |
2014/15 | 42 | 28 | 14 |
2015/16 | 37 | 20 | 17 |
2016/17 | 27 | 18 | 9 |
2017/18 | 35 | 20 | 15 |
2018/19 | 43 | 23 | 20 |
2019/20 | 31 | 14 | 17 |
2020/21 (provisional) | 35 | 19 | 16 |
Note: Statistics presented in the table are for workplace fatal injuries in Great Britain reportable under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrence Regulations (RIDDOR). For more information on RIDDOR see www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/sources.htm.