§ Mr. Lyellasked the Secretary of State for Employment how many people have suffered injury by way of amputation, crushing, or associated injuries from power presses, whether hydraulic, pneumatic, mechanical or otherwise, in each year from 1961 to date.
§ Mr. Peter BottomleyInformation is not available in the form requested. In particular it is not possible, without incurring disproportionate cost, to give details about the nature of injuries received. However, using the legal definition for power presses given in the Power Presses Regulations 1965 (which includes mechanical machines with a flywheel and clutch mechanism and mechanical press brakes but excludes hydraulic and pneumatic machines) the following figures for accidents are available.
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Accidents at the tools of machines subject to the Regulations Accidents at the tools of fluid powered hydraulic and pneumatic press brakes 1962 299 — 1963 350 — 1964 498 — 1965 441 — 1966 342 — 1967 230 — 1968 234 — 1969 245 29 1970 203 31
Accidents at the tools of machines subject to the Regulations Accidents at the tools of fluid powered hydraulic and pneumatic press brakes 1971 159 28 1972 153 24 1973 152 24 1974 145 15 1975 — 7 1976 — — 1977 — — 1978 — — 1979 48 — 1980 — — 1981 — — 1982 — 5 1983 27 3 In addition there were 51 accidents in 1974 and 13 in 1983 at the tools of metalworking hydraulic presses and 28 accidents in 1974 at the tools of metalworking pneumatic presses.
Figures for other years are not available.