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Mr. Edwin Wainwright
asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will give the fatal accident rate per 100,000 man-shifts worked underground and surface, respectively, in the coalmining industry over each of the past five years.
Mr. Ridley
The figures are as follows:
| FATAL ACCIDENTS PER 100,000 MANSHIFTS | ||
| Underground | At the surface | |
| 1967 | 0·19 | 0·11 |
| 1968 | 0·18 | 0·05 |
| 1969 | 0·16 | 0·09 |
| 1970 | 0·17 | 0·05 |
| 1971 (provisional) | 0·14 | 0·04 |