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Fatal injuries to employees, self-employed and workers by kind of accident and industry 2007/08p

As reported to all enforcing authorities

  Employees Self-employed Workers
Agriculture, hunting, forestry & fishing (a) Extractive & utility supply industries Manufacturing industries Construction Service industries Agriculture, hunting, forestry & fishing (a) Extractive & utility supply industries Manufacturing industries Construction Service industries Agriculture, hunting, forestry & fishing (a) Extractive & utility supply industries Manufacturing industries Construction Service industries
Contact with moving machinery - - 11 2 3 2 - - - - 2 - 11 2 3
Struck by moving, including flying/falling, object 3 2 6 8 4 4 - - 1 1 7 2 6 9 5
Struck by moving vehicle 4 1 5 9 13 4 - - - 2 8 1 5 9 15
Strike against something fixed or stationary 3 - 2 1 3 - - - - - 3 - 2 1 3
Injured while handling, lifting or carrying - - 1 - 1 - - - - - - - 1 - 1
Slips, trips or falls on same level - - - - 3 - - - - - - - - - 3
Falls from a height of which: 1 1 3 21 8 5 - 1 13 5 6 1 4 34 13
- up to and inc 2 metres 1 - - 4 3 - - - - 1 1 - - 4 4
- over 2 metres - 1 3 16 4 5 - 1 12 1 5 1 4 28 5
- height not stated - - - 1 1 - - - 1 3 - - - 2 4
Trapped by something collapsing/overturning 2 1 4 6 2 1 - - 1 2 2 1 4 7 4
Drowning or asphyxiation 2 2 - 4 - - - - - 1 2 2 - 4 1
Exposure to, or contact with, a harmful substance - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Exposure to fire 1 - - - 5 - - - - 1 1 - - - 6
Exposure to an explosion - - 1 - 1 - - - - - - - 1 - 1
Contact with electricity or electrical discharge 2 2 1 1 2 - - - 1 - 2 2 1 2 2
Injured by an animal - - - - 1 3 - - - - 3 - - - 1
Acts of violence - - - - 7 - - - - - - - - - 7
Other kind of accident - - - 1 8 - - - 1 - - - - 2 8
Injuries not classified by kind 2 - - 1 1 - - - 1 - 2 - - 2 1
Total 20 9 34 54 62 19 - 1 18 12 39 9 35 72 74

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