To ask the Secretary of State for Health what was the total number of workplace injuries, and other work-related medical complaints and deaths for each of the last 10 years. [7316]
The table shows the total number of fatal and other injuries in all industries reported to all health and safety enforcing authorities between 1986–87 and 1994–95.
Comparable comprehensive figures for work-related medical complaints are not available. Many occupational diseases have long latency and the link with work may not be immediately obvious. The Health and Safety Executive obtains information on work-related diseases from a variety of sources and detailed discussion of these is
Injuries reported to enforcing authorities 1986–87 to 1994–95 1
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Fatal
| Major injuries
| Over three-day injuries
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Year
| Employees
| Self Employed
| Members of the public
| Employees
| Self employed
| Members of the public
| Employers
| Self employed
|
| 1986–87 | 355 | 52 | 92 | 20,695 | 690 | 14,575 | 159,011 | 1,029 |
| 1987–88 | 361 | 84 | 113 | 20,057 | 867 | 12,880 | 159,852 | 1,159 |
| 1988–89 | 2529 | 80 | 121 | 19,944 | 1,152 | 12,614 | 163,119 | 1,503 |
| 1989–90 | 370 | 105 | 3206 | 20,396 | 1,310 | 11,378 | 165,244 | 1,865 |
| 1990–91 | 346 | 87 | 139 | 19,896 | 1,326 | 9,981 | 160,811 | 2,077 |
| 1991–92 | 297 | 71 | 105 | 17,597 | 1,101 | 11,009 | 152,506 | 1,832 |
| 1992–93 | 276 | 63 | 113 | 16,938 | 1,115 | 10,669 | 141,147 | 2,136 |
| 1993–94 | 245 | 51 | 107 | 16,705 | 1,274 | 11,552 | 134,928 | 2,531 |
| 1994–951 | 190 | 73 | 118 | 16,503 | 1,291 | 11,298 | 135,940 | 2,846 |
1 Provisional. | ||||||||
2 Data includes the 167 fatalities of the Piper Alpha disaster, 6 July 1988. | ||||||||
3 Data includes the 95 fatalities to members of the public in the Hillsborough disaster, 15 April 1989. | ||||||||
HSE gets to know of virtually all workplace deaths. However, non-fatal injuries are subject to under reporting. HSE included a set of questions in the 1993–94 and the 1994–95 Labour Force Surveys (LFS) to establish the true levels of workplace injury. The results of the surveys show that just over 40 per cent. of non fatal injuries to employees are reported.