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Mr. Woof
asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many industrial accidents resulting in personal injury or fatality were reported to his Department for the coal mining industry during the last 12-month period for which figures are available.
Mr. Harold Walker
I am informed by the Chairman of the Health and Safety Commission that the provisional figures for 1974 are:
| Number of persons killed | 48 |
| Number of serious or reportable injuries (1) | 497 |
| Total number of injuries (2) | 49,257 |
| (1) Includes clerks and salaried persons at the mines. | |
| (2) Accidents involving absence for more than three days. | |