Lieut.-Commander Hutchisonasked the Minister of Fuel and Power the number of fatal and non-fatal accidents, per 1,000 employees, which took place in the coal industry in 1947; and the comparable figures for the years 1938 and 1946.
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§ Mr. GaitskellThe numbers of fatal and non-fatal accidents sustained in the years 1938, 1946 and 1947 per 1,000 persons
Year. Underground Surface, All Causes. Total, Underground and Surface. By explosions of firedamp or coal dust. Total. Death rates. 1938 … … 0.14 1.25 0.42 1.07 1946 … … 0.04 0.91 0.29 0.76 1947 … … 0.30 1.06 0.19 0.85 Serious injury rates.* 1938 … … 0.17 4.61 1.57 3.93 1946 … … 0.08 3.92 1.21 3.26 1947 … … 0.14 3.97 1.44 3.36 Total injury rates. 1938 … … 0.16 193.03 63.79 164.22 1946 … … 0.08 277.87 96.29 233.65 1947 … … Not available. * Injuries which, because of their nature or severity, are required to be reported to His Majesty's Divisional Inspector of Mines at the time of their occurrence.