§ 10. Commander FANSHAWEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department the percentage of fatal accidents to the total numbers employed in
| The following statement shows for each of the years 1922 and 1923 the percentages of (a) seamen employed on trading vessels, (b) railway servants and (c) persons employed in mines under the Coal Mines Regulation Act, killed by accidents in the course of their employment, together with the percentages of those injured by accidents, so far as particulars are available:— | ||||
| — | Killed. | Injured. | ||
| 1922. | 1923. | 1922. | 1923. | |
| Per cent. | Per cent. | Per cent. | Per cent. | |
| Seamen employed on Trading Vessels | 0.316 | 0.278 | (Particulars not available.) | |
| Railway Servants | 0.034 | 0.036 | 2.35 | 2.78 |
| Persons employed in mines under the Coal Mines Regulation Act. | 0.095 | 0.106 | 15.95 | 17.39 |
| These figures necessarily- take no account of variations in the numbers employed within the year or of differences in the daily period during which workpeople in the various industries were exposed to risk. | ||||
| The statistics of injuries to railway servants include accidents causing persons to be absent from work for at least one whole day, while these for miners relate to accidents disabling the persons injured for more than seven days. | ||||
| Statistics of accidents to Tug and Lightermen are not available. |