Stats published for workplace injuries and deaths

Provisional figures for the year from 2006 to 2007 have been published by the Health and Safety Executive, revealing that the number of workers killed by fatal injuries in Britain and Northern Ireland has risen by 11 per cent.

Some 241 employees received injuries in the workplace that were so serious that they led to death, which is a rate of 0.80 per 100,000 workers, up from a rate of 0.72 per 100,000 the year before.

Last year 46 per cent of the fatalities occurred in construction and agriculture jobs, with lethal injuries in agriculture at the highest rate of 8.1 deaths per 100,000 employees.

Meanwhile 77 people died in construction industry accidents, at a rate of 3.7 deaths per 100,000 workers.

Falling from a height remains the most common fatality, accounting for 21 per cent of all workplace deaths last year. Being struck by a moving or falling object or vehicle, are the next most common accidents responsible for death of workers.

Meanwhile, excluding railway accidents, 90 members of the public were fatally injured in the past year.

Solicitors are unlikely to see many more cases of claims for work-related deaths or public injury deaths from family members than in the past, as the figures have either remained constant or fallen over the last 15 years.

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