Continental Shelf (Deaths and Injuries)

HC Deb 08 May 1991 vol 190 cc492-3W

Mr. Doran

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what was the number of(a) deaths and (b) serious injuries in the United Kingdom continental shelf in each year from June 1979 to 1 April.

Mr. Forth

The number of accidents causing deaths or serious injuries on or near to offshore installations on the United Kingdom continental shelf have in the past been published annually in the report "Development of the Oil and Gas Resources of the United Kingdom". Copies of the report for 1990 are now available in the Library of the House. The information for the calendar years from 1979 to 1990 is as follows:

	Fatalities	Serious accidents
1979	10	43
1980	4	45
1981	6	59
1982	14	39

	Fatalities	Serious accidents
1983	10	47
1984	13	59
1985	8	103
1986	3	101
1987	6	59
1988	1173	285
1989	3	85
1990	313	87
1167 relate to Piper Alpha.
2 Includes 11 of the 61 Piper Alpha survivors.
3 Includes six relating to Brent Spar helicopter accident.