Focus on Amputations and Burns
This section looks in further details at two types of
particularly serious injury. Tables 17 and 18 set out
how the level of investigations of amputations and burns
suffered by workers differed from one part of the country
to another in 2000/01.
In the case of amputations, there are clearly great
differences in the rates of investigations from 73%
in the North West to 36% in Wales. It is also notable,
for example, that North East and Greater London have
very similar numbers of reported amputations but very
different rates of investigation – in North East
40 out of 63 amputations (64%) were investigated but
just 29 out of 62 amputations (42%) were investigated
in Greater London.
In the case of burns, there are also great differences
in the rates of investigations, ranging from 70% in
the North West to just 19% in Northern Home Counties.
Again taking two areas with roughly similar numbers
of reported burns, we find that of the 43 reported burns
in North and West Yorkshire, 22 (51%) were investigated,
while only 7 (19%) of the 37 burns reported in Northern
Home Counties were investigated.
Table 17
Numbers of Reported and Investigated Amputations to
Workers by HSE Area, (2000/01)
|
Nos
Rep
|
Nos
Inv
|
%
Inv
|
| North
West |
26
|
19
|
73%
|
| Scotland
East |
55
|
39
|
71%
|
| Greater
Manchester |
41
|
29
|
71%
|
| East
Anglia |
46
|
31
|
67%
|
| North
East |
63
|
40
|
64%
|
| East
Midlands |
45
|
28
|
62%
|
| South
York |
66
|
41
|
62%
|
| South
West |
60
|
37
|
62%
|
| Marches |
33
|
20
|
61%
|
| South
|
63
|
38
|
60%
|
| West
Midlands |
82
|
49
|
60%
|
| South
East |
54
|
31
|
57%
|
| N
& W Yorkshire |
54
|
31
|
57%
|
| North
Midlands |
56
|
32
|
57%
|
| Scotland
West |
52
|
29
|
56%
|
| N/thn
Home Counties |
43
|
23
|
54%
|
| Merseyside |
45
|
23
|
51%
|
| Greater
London |
62
|
29
|
47%
|
| Wales |
67
|
26
|
36%
|
Table
18
Numbers of Reported and Investigated Burns to Workers
by HSE Area, (2000/01)
|
Nos
Rep
|
Nos
Inv
|
%
Inv
|
| North
West |
10
|
7
|
70%
|
| Marches |
23
|
15
|
65%
|
| East
Midlands |
22
|
13
|
59%
|
| Scotland
West |
14
|
8
|
57%
|
| N
& W Yorkshire |
43
|
22
|
51%
|
| South
|
30
|
15
|
50%
|
| Wales |
56
|
26
|
46%
|
| West
Midlands |
44
|
20
|
46%
|
| South
Yorkshire |
28
|
12
|
43%
|
| Greater
Manchester |
21
|
9
|
43%
|
| South
East |
20
|
8
|
40%
|
| North
Midland |
26
|
10
|
39%
|
| South
West |
42
|
16
|
38%
|
| Merseyside |
22
|
8
|
36%
|
| Greater
London |
47
|
17
|
36%
|
| North
East |
25
|
9
|
36%
|
| East
Anglia |
34
|
11
|
32%
|
| Scotland
East |
32
|
10
|
31%
|
| N/thn
Home Counties |
37
|
7
|
19%
|
We
can learn more about the types of amputations and
burns not being investigated by looking at the level
of investigations into amputations and burns of different
parts of the body. This is set out in Tables 19 and
20 for the year 2000/1.
In relation to amputations, it is particularly notable
that the amputation of 3 arms, 7 hands, 2 legs, and
1 ear, and 410 fingers were not investigated.
Table 19
Numbers of Reported and Investigated Amputations Suffered
by Workers, by ‘Site’ (2000/01)
| |
Nos
Rep
|
Nos
Inv
|
| Ear |
1
|
0
|
| Face |
3
|
1
|
| Finger |
942
|
542
|
| Hand |
19
|
12
|
| Arm
|
15
|
12
|
| Toe |
12
|
9
|
| Foot |
7
|
7
|
| Leg |
14
|
12
|
| Several
Locations |
2
|
1
|
Table
20 sets out in more detail in which industries the
failure to investigate amputations can be located.
It is notable that in the Service Sector there were
incidents involving the amputation of 2 legs, 2 hands,
2 arms and 1 ear which were not investigated.
Table 20
Numbers of Reported and Investigated Amputations suffered
by workers by Industry, (2000/01)
| |
Manufacturing
|
Construction
|
Agriculture
|
Energy/
Extractive
|
Service
|
| |
Nos
Rep
|
Nos
Inv
|
Nos
Rep
|
Nos
Inv
|
Nos
Rep
|
Nos
Inv
|
Nos
Rep
|
Nos
Inv
|
Nos
Rep
|
Nos
Inv
|
| Ear |
0
|
-
|
0
|
-
|
0
|
-
|
0
|
-
|
1
|
0
|
| Face |
1
|
0
|
0
|
-
|
0
|
-
|
0
|
-
|
0
|
-
|
| Head |
0
|
-
|
0
|
-
|
0
|
-
|
0
|
-
|
2
|
1
|
| Finger(s) |
609
|
412
|
117
|
34
|
41
|
24
|
12
|
5
|
162
|
67
|
| Hand |
13
|
10
|
3
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
-
|
2
|
0
|
| Arm
|
8
|
7
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
-
|
4
|
3
|
| Toe |
4
|
4
|
4
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
-
|
3
|
2
|
| Foot |
3
|
3
|
2
|
2
|
2
|
2
|
0
|
-
|
0
|
-
|
| Leg |
5
|
5
|
3
|
3
|
3
|
2
|
0
|
-
|
4
|
2
|
| Several
Locations |
1
|
1
|
0
|
-
|
0
|
-
|
0
|
-
|
1
|
0
|
Table
21 sets out in which industries the failure to investigate
burns to certain parts of the body (not all) can be
located. It is notable that whilst in the Agricultural
sector every single burn was investigated, in the
Construction industry none of the burns to the eyes
were investigated; and whilst most of the hand burns
in the Manufacturing and Construction sectors were
investigated, only 3 out of 12 were investigated in
the Service sector.
Table 21
Numbers of Reported and Investigated Burns suffered
by workers by Industry, (2000/01)
|
Manufacturing
|
Construction
|
Agriculture
|
Energy/Extractive
|
Services
|
|
Nos
Rep
|
Nos
Inv
|
Nos
Rep
|
Nos
Inv
|
Nos
Rep
|
Nos
Inv
|
Nos
Rep
|
Nos
Inv
|
Nos
Rep
|
Nos
Inv
|
| Eye |
158
|
48
|
23
|
0
|
4
|
4
|
2
|
0
|
77
|
12
|
| Face |
8
|
7
|
6
|
2
|
1
|
1
|
2
|
2
|
4
|
1
|
| Fingers |
2
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
|
2
|
1
|
| Hand |
13
|
8
|
10
|
6
|
0
|
-
|
1
|
1
|
12
|
3
|
| Arm |
7
|
2
|
8
|
4
|
1
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
3
|
-
|
| Sev.
Arm |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Locations
|
3
|
1
|
11
|
6
|
0
|
-
|
0
|
-
|
1
|
-
|
| Foot |
9
|
6
|
1
|
1
|
0
|
-
|
0
|
-
|
4
|
1
|
| leg |
4
|
2
|
5
|
3
|
0
|
-
|
1
|
0
|
4
|
1
|
| Sev
Body Locations |
49
|
38
|
45
|
27
|
3
|
3
|
8
|
7
|
32
|
20
|
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