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Posted By Doug Kelly
Has this been discussed already?
'On August 9, the U.S. Labor Department reported that 5,703 workers died in workplace accidents in 2006. '
I appreciate these are raw figures, and haven't been 'adjusted' to reflect rate per 100,000 workers say, but that's a lot of grief.
Does it place UK figures in a better light and show we are doing a relatively good job of workplace safety?
I find these numbers scary, what do others feel?
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Posted By Seano
How many people are in the UK compared to the u.s. U.S.A have over 300 million people compared to our 60 million. If they were to be at the same standard as us they would have recorded around 1200 fatalities. So yes those figures to seem quite high.
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Posted By Jay Joshi The full report is at:- http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cfoi.pdfIt also states that:- The rate of fatal work injuries in 2006 was 3.9 per 100,000 workers, down from a rate of 4.0 per 100,000 in 2005.
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Posted By peter gotch
Hi Doug,
Can't do a direct like for like as the US stats include e.g. aircraft accidents.
However, "Construction accounted for 1,226 fatal work injuries" compared to 77 in GB last year.
p
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