Volume 2

Report / Royal Commission on Civil Liability and Compensation for Personal Injury.

  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Civil Liability and Compensation for Personal Injury.
Date:
1978
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Report / Royal Commission on Civil Liability and Compensation for Personal Injury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Disablement 163 Each year about a sixth of those who receive industrial injury benefit as a result of an accident at work go on to draw disablement benefit. The vast majority are assessed at less than 20 per cent disability, and receive a gratuity, the remainder drawing pensions. Industrial analysis of injury 164 Table 32 gives an industrial analysis of injury rates for male employees only. Injury rates for females do not vary greatly between industries, averaging less than 10 per 1,000, and exceeding 20 per 1,000 only in food, drink and tobacco. 165 Within many of the industries or groups of industries listed above there may be occupations with widely differing risks of injury, particularly of severe injury. For instance, the group agriculture, forestry and fishing, which taken as a whole has an incidence of injury close to the average for all industries, includes deep sea fishing, which in terms of death is one of the most risky occupations. Some indication of the more dangerous occupations is given by the figures of deaths in Table 33. The figures are compiled from a number of sources and may therefore not be exactly comparable, particularly in respect of the definitions of numbers employed. Table 33. Death rates in dangerous occupations Number of deaths a year per 1,000 employees Coalmining? 0:24 Quarrying! 0-30 Offshore oil installations? 2°8 All manufacturing! 0-04 Iron and steel making! 0-12 Shipbuilding?! 0-13 Construction! 0-18 Railways? 0-21 Merchant shipping* 1-33 Deep sea trawlers* 2:47 _ Sources: 1 Health and Safety Executive: annual average for the years 1973-75. _ 2 Department of Energy: annual average for the years 1965-74. _ 3 Department of Transport: annual average for the years 1973-75. 4 Department of Trade: annual average for the years 1966-75. Causes of injury 166 An indication of the extent to which work injuries might be prevented 1s given by an analysis of a random sample of accidents in factories and in the