HC Deb 20 March 1972 vol 833 c219W
Mr. Edwin Wainwright

asked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will give the fatal accident rate per 100,000 man-shifts worked underground and surface, respectively, in the coalmining industry over each of the past five years.

Mr. Ridley

The figures are as follows:

FATAL ACCIDENTS PER 100,000 MANSHIFTS
Underground At the surface
1967 0.19 0.11
1968 0.18 0.05
1969 0.16 0.09
1970 0.17 0.05
1971 (provisional) 0.14 0.04