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Investigation
of ‘Over-3 Day’ Injuries
An over-three day injury is an injury (other than
one defined as a ‘major’ injury) that results
in a worker being off work for more than 3 consecutive
working days.
Table 26 show that the rates of investigation into
over-three day injuries are far lower than the level
of investigation into major injuries – 4.5% compared
to 19.3% in 2000/01. The numbers and percentages of
over-three day injuries investigated did however increase
by over 50% over the five year period.
Table
26
Numbers of Reported and Investigated Over-3 Day Injuries
to Workers, (1996/7-2000/01)
|
Nos
Rep |
Nos
Inv |
%
Inv |
| 1996/97 |
106,609 |
2,803 |
2.6% |
| 1997/98 |
107,878 |
2,905 |
2.7% |
| 1998/99 |
104,567 |
3,112 |
3.0% |
| 1999/00 |
106,671 |
3,714 |
3.5% |
| 2000/01 |
104,623 |
4,378 |
4.5% |
Table
27 shows the level of investigation into over-three
day injuries across different industries. In 2000/01
these levels ranged from 11.7% in Agriculture to 1.9%
in the Service sector. The disparity between the investigation
of injuries in the Manufacturing (7.1%) and Service
sector (1.9%) is particularly noteworthy, since they
are dealing with a similar number of reported injuries.
In fact although there were 18,000 less injuries in
Manufacturing, FOD inspectors investigated over twice
the number of injuries.
Table
27
Number of Reported and Investigated over-3 day injuries
by Industry, (1996/7- 2000/01)
| |
1996/7
|
1997/8
|
|
Nos
Rep
|
Nos
Inv
|
%
Inv
|
Nos
Rep
|
Nos
Inv
|
%
Inv
|
| Agriculture |
1,428
|
138
|
9.70%
|
1,416
|
166
|
11.70%
|
| Manufacturing |
40,450
|
1,758
|
4.30%
|
37,127
|
2,624
|
7.10%
|
| Construction |
9,259
|
285
|
3.10%
|
9,753
|
478
|
4.90%
|
| Extractive/Energy |
2,200
|
32
|
1.60%
|
1304
|
49
|
3.80%
|
| Service
Sector |
53,272
|
590
|
1.10%
|
55,023
|
1,061
|
1.90%
|
Table
28 shows the wide variation in investigation rates
in different parts of Britain, as well as changes
in these rates over a five year period. In 1996/7,
investigation rates ranged from 5.2% in Marches to
1.3% in Greater Manchester; and in 2000/01 from 6.7%
in Merseyside to 3.0% in Greater London. It is notable
that over the period, some HSE Areas have significantly
increased their investigation levels. Merseyside,
for example, increased its level of investigation
from 2% in 1996/7 to 6.7% in 2000/01, and Greater
Manchester from 1.3% to 4.1% in the same period. Others
have made barely a change: North West, for example,
investigated 3.4% over-three day injuries in 1996/7
and 3.7% in 2000/01.
Table
28
Numbers of Reported and Investigated Over-3 day Injuries
by HSE area, 1996/7 – (2000/01)
| |
1996/7 |
2000/01 |
| |
Nos
Rep |
Nos
Inv |
%
Inv |
Nos
Rep |
Nos
Inv |
%
Inv |
| Marches |
4,610 |
237 |
5.20% |
4,434 |
270 |
6% |
| East
Anglia |
5,560 |
194 |
3.50% |
5,342 |
222 |
4.20% |
| South
West |
5,973 |
215 |
3.40% |
5,979 |
330 |
5.50% |
| Wales |
5,752 |
193 |
3.40% |
6,465 |
285 |
4.40% |
| North
West |
4,630 |
156 |
3.40% |
4,228 |
156 |
3.70% |
| Scotland
West |
4,390 |
146 |
3.30% |
4,807 |
227 |
4.70% |
| Scotland
East |
5,794 |
183 |
3.20% |
5,002 |
246 |
4.90% |
| North
East |
6,177 |
183 |
3.00% |
5,581 |
230 |
4.10% |
| N
& W Yorkshire |
6,605 |
189 |
2.90% |
6,273 |
210 |
3.30% |
| South
|
5,772 |
135 |
2.70% |
5,726 |
272 |
4.80% |
| South
Yorkshire |
4,897 |
129 |
2.60% |
5,398 |
188 |
3.50% |
| N/thn
Home Counties |
4,530 |
107 |
2.40% |
4,802 |
196 |
4.10% |
| West
Midlands |
6,319 |
144 |
2.30% |
5,748 |
170 |
3.00% |
| Merseyside |
5,286 |
109 |
2.00% |
4,162 |
277 |
6.70% |
| South
East |
5,084 |
93 |
1.80% |
5,169 |
224 |
4.30% |
| North
Midlands |
5,903 |
102 |
1.70% |
5,741 |
204 |
3.60% |
| Greater
London |
9,149 |
120 |
1.30% |
9,468 |
283 |
3.00% |
| East
Midlands |
4,963 |
95 |
1.30% |
5,180 |
176 |
3.40% |
| Greater
Manchester |
5,215 |
67 |
1.30% |
5,118 |
212 |
4.10% |
Table
29 looks at the type of injuries that are not being
investigated. Almost half of over-three day injuries
concern "strains" – and only 1.7% of
these are investigated. However, it is notable that
71% of asphyxias and 59% of electrical shocks are
not investigated.
Table
29
Numbers of Reported and Investigated Over-3 day Injuries
by ‘Nature of Injury’, (2000/01)
|
Nos
Rep |
Nos
Inv |
%
Inv |
| Electrical
Shock |
186 |
77 |
41.40% |
| Asphyxia/Poisoning |
305 |
88 |
28.90% |
| Burn |
2,783 |
420 |
15% |
| Loss
of eye-sight |
21 |
2 |
9.50% |
| Concussion |
533 |
41 |
7.70% |
| Other
injury |
1,383 |
102 |
7.40% |
| Laceration
|
11,447 |
827 |
7.20% |
| Fracture
|
4,679 |
323 |
6.90% |
| Multiple
|
3,311 |
205 |
6.20% |
| Unknown |
1,047 |
56 |
5.30% |
| Bruising
|
20,457 |
1,012 |
4.90% |
| Superficial
|
8,251 |
375 |
4.50% |
| Dislocation |
371 |
12 |
3.20% |
| Strain |
49,841 |
838 |
1.70% |
| Natural
|
8 |
0 |
0% |
| Amputation |
0 |
0 |
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