§ Mr. Pawseyasked the Secretary of State for Energy how many persons have been (a) killed and (b) injured in the nuclear industry in each year since 1960.
§ Mr. Goodlad[pursuant to his reply, 19 December 1985, c. 250]: I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given by my hon. and learned Friend the Member for Tunbridge Wells (Mr. Mayhew) on 31 January 1980 to a question from my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Selly Oak (Mr. Beaumont-Dark) which gives figures for deaths and injuries resulting in more than three days absence from normal work in the nuclear industry, for the period up to 1979. Figures for later years, on the same basis, are as follows: 268W
Fatal injuries All injuries (including fatal) 1980 1 591 1981 1 581 1982 1 504 1983 2 462 1984 0 513 Notes:
1. The figures relate to operators' employees at sites operated by the Central Electricity Generating Board, the South of Scotland Electricity Generating Board, British Nuclear Fuels plc and establishments of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority concerned with nuclear research and development. The injuries included are those resulting in more than three days absence from normal work.
2. The fatalities were the result of industrial accidents: none was related to radiological hazards.
3. The definition of all injuries is not consistent with that used by the National Coal Board in the answer given on 19 December 1985, at columns 250–51.