Accidents and incidents on the railways are reported to the independent Office of Rail Regulation under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 1995 (RIDDOR 95).
Table 1 lists the number of Network Rail employees and its contractors fatally injured while undertaking railway operations reported to the independent Office of Rail Regulation. These data exclude such employees fatally injured in road traffic accidents and fatalities arising out of a railway under construction, the latter being reported to the Health and Safety Executive.
The data also exclude other railway employees (e.g. train crew) that have been fatally injured on Network Rail infrastructure. Table 2 lists all reportable railway employee fatalities that have occurred on Network Rail infrastructure since Network Rail was formed in October 2002 to the end of 2008.
Injury data for Network Rail employees and contractors, and information on the cause of each incident could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Network Rail employee Network Rail contractor Total 2002 (October to December) 0 0 0 2003 0 4 4 2004 0 8 8 2005 0 3 3 2006 0 1 1 2007 2 0 2 2008 0 2 2
Number 2002 (October to December) 0 2003 4 2004 10 2005 5 2006 3 2007 2 2008 2