Mr. GUESTasked the Secretary for Mines the number of fatal and other accidents occurring in coal mines for the year 1922?
§ Lieut.-Colonel LANE-FOXThe number of fatal accidents occurring in the year 1922 in mines under the Coal Mines Act was 1,020, resulting in the death of 1,100 persons employed at those mines. Complete particulars of non-fatal accidents are not yet available, but 4,509 serious non-fatal accidents, resulting in the injury of 4,724 persons, were reported during the year to His Majesty's Inspectors of Mines.