asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many fatal accidents occurred at work during each of the first three-quarters of 1975 and in each comparable quarter of each of the previous five years; how many and what percentage of such accidents were in the construction and engineering industries, respectively; how many and what percentage of such cases resulted in prosecutions under the Factories Act and/or under the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act; and what were the results of such prosecutions.
The Chairman of the Health and Safety Commission informs me that fatal accidents notified under the Factories Act were as follows:plied without a disproportionate expenditure of staff time.
asked the Secretary of State for Employment how many non-fatal accidents occurred at work during each of the first three quarters of 1975 and in each comparable quarter of each of the previous five years; how many and what percentage of such accidents were in the construction and in the engineering industries, respectively; how many and what percentage of such cases
| Construction industries | Engineering industries* | ||||||
| Total non-fatal accidents reported | Number reported | Percentage of total (1) | Number reported | Percentage of total (1) | |||
| (1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | (5) | |||
| 1970— | |||||||
| March quarter | … | … | 78,855 | 9,771 | 12·4 | 37,569 | 47·6 |
| June quarter | … | … | 77,918 | 10,259 | 13·2 | 37,059 | 47·6 |
| September quarter | … | … | 71,284 | 9,722 | 13·6 | 33,027 | 46·3 |
| 1971— | |||||||
| March quarter | … | … | 67,919 | 7,980 | 11·7 | 33,018 | 48·6 |
| June quarter | … | … | 68,293 | 8,752 | 12·8 | 32,333 | 47·3 |
| September quarter | … | … | 63,663 | 8,606 | 13·5 | 28,840 | 45·3 |
| 1972— | |||||||
| March quarter | … | … | 65,568 | 8,920 | 13·6 | 29,692 | 45·3 |
| June quarter | … | … | 66,307 | 9,303 | 14·0 | 29,435 | 44·4 |
| September quarter | … | … | 59,203 | 8,105 | 13·7 | 25,936 | 43·8 |
| 1973— | |||||||
| March quarter | … | … | 70,996 | 9,164 | 12·9 | 32,517 | 45·8 |
| June quarter | … | … | 67,269 | 8,948 | 13·3 | 30,544 | 45·4 |
| September quarter | … | … | 64,090 | 8,678 | 13·5 | 28,719 | 44·8 |
| 1974— | |||||||
| March quarter | … | … | 63,838 | 8,389 | 13·1 | 29,332 | 45·9 |
| June quarter | … | … | 65,369 | 8,237 | 12·6 | 30,397 | 46·5 |
| September quarter | … | … | 62,131 | 8,020 | 12·9 | 28,491 | 45·9 |
| 1975— | |||||||
| March quarter | … | … | 61,407 | 7,684 | 12·5 | 29,151 | 47·5 |
| June quarter | … | … | 62,531 | 9,097 | 14·5 | 28,848 | 46·1 |
| September quarter | … | … | 58,046 | 8,578 | 14·8 | 25,939 | 44·7 |
| * Metal processing, general engineering and electrical engineering. | |||||||