§ MR. BELLI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade if he can state the number of fatal and non-fatal accidents, respectively, which occurred to railway-men due to using or carrying about shunting poles not actually engaged in coupling or uncoupling operations during the year 1905.
§ MR. LLOYD-GEORGEIn addition to ten cases of accident to railway servants through the improper use of coupling poles as brakesticks, there appear to have been during the year 1905, twenty-one accidents, fortunately none of them fatal, due to the fact that a coupling pole was being used or carried, apart from accidents occurring in the actual operation of coupling or uncoupling.