Construction Industry (Accidents) (Hansard, 18 April 1989)

§ 14. Mr. Jack Thompson
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will estimate the number of accidents that go unreported in the construction industry.

§ 95. Mr. Bradley
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment whether he will estimate the number of accidents that go unreported in the construction industry.

§ Mr. Nicholls
All cases of fatal injury in the course of work activity are reported to the enforcement authorities. It is not known what proportion of other reportable injuries to people employed in construction go unreported, but it is thought to be significantly more than 50 per cent.

§ 63. Dr. Reid
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what were the fatal and major injury rates in construction industries in 1974, 1978 and 1988.

§ 128. Ms. Quin
To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what were the fatal and major injury rates in construction industries in 1974, 1978 and 1988.

§ Mr. Nicholls
The available information for employees is shown in the table. More than one third of the people employed in the industry are classified as self-employed. Prior to 1981, injuries to the self-employed were not reportable and under current regulations they are not reportable for self-employed people working on their own. Figures for the self-employed are therefore not included in the table, but the provisional 1987–88 figure for the number of employees and self-employed killed in the course of construction activity was 141.
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Injury rates per 100,000 employees in the construction industry¹

Fatal Injuries ²Major Injuries ³All reported Injuries

1974 13.6 n/a 2,830

1978 10.4 n/a 2,976

⁴1987–8 10.1 206.6 1,914

¹ Defined as Order 20 of the 1968 Standard Industrial Classification in 1974 and 1978 and Division 5 of the 1980 SIC in 1987–88.

² The classification of injuries as major was first introduced in 1981.

³ Includes all reported injuries causing more than three days' absence from work. Comparisons between years may be affected by variable under-reporting of non-fatal injuries.

⁴ Provisional.

n/a Not available.

Injury rates per 100,000 employees in the construction industry¹
	Fatal Injuries	²Major Injuries	³All reported Injuries
1974	13.6	n/a	2,830
1978	10.4	n/a	2,976
⁴1987–8	10.1	206.6	1,914
¹ Defined as Order 20 of the 1968 Standard Industrial Classification in 1974 and 1978 and Division 5 of the 1980 SIC in 1987–88.
² The classification of injuries as major was first introduced in 1981.
³ Includes all reported injuries causing more than three days' absence from work. Comparisons between years may be affected by variable under-reporting of non-fatal injuries.
⁴ Provisional.