Industrial Injuries
(asked on 26th April 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask His Majesty's Government what were the top 10 causes of work-related fatal injuries of the 123 workers killed in Great Britain in 2021/22 as recorded by the Health and Safety Executive.
Answered by
Viscount Younger of Leckie
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Work and Pensions)
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) publishes official statistics on work-related fatal injuries at https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/fatals.htm. Data specifically for work-related fatal injuries by accident kind is reproduced in the table below.
Table 1: Number of work-related fatal injuries to workers (employees and self-employed) in Great Britain by kind of accident, 2021/22
Source: Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR)
Accident kind | Number of fatal injuries to workers |
All accident kinds | 123 |
Falls from a height | 29 |
Struck by moving vehicle | 23 |
Struck by moving, including flying/falling, object | 18 |
Contact with moving machinery | 15 |
Trapped by something collapsing/overturning | 14 |
Contact with electricity or electrical discharge | 9 |
Drowning or asphyxiation | 4 |
Strike against something fixed or stationary | 2 |
Exposure to fire | 2 |
Slips, trips or falls on same level | 1 |
Exposure to, or contact with, a harmful substance | 1 |
Exposure to an explosion | 1 |
Injured by an animal | 1 |
Acts of violence | 1 |
Other kind of accident | 2 |
Figures for 2021/22 are at this stage provisional. They will be finalised in July 2023 following any necessary adjustments.