01/11/2010 - HSE records fall in work deaths
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has revealed that construction workers are still the most likely to suffer accidents, despite death and injury tolls in construction declining in recent years.
The HSE study indicates that the rate of fatal injuries per 100,000 construction workers dropped to 2.2 in 2009/10 from 2.5 in 2008/09. In 2009/10, there were 42 deaths compared with 52 during the previous year, and an average of 66 for the five years from 2004/05.
The amount of serious injuries, such as burns and amputations, also dropped by 14% from 3,307 in 2008/09 to 2,585, while injuries that forced employees to take three or more days off work also fell by 8% from 6,815 in 2008/09 to 5,651 in 2009/10.
Ironically, these figures, which suggest that the construction industry has become a safer place to work in, were published during the same week that six people were killed in accidents on construction sites.
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