Freelance, apologies if I sounded sarcastic or flippant, I must confess to not being an academic. The aforementioned definitions, in my opinion were too vague and woolly to be of any use to me, who would prefer those laid out in Jays post. On the practical side, as an organisation the definitions really doesn't make alot of difference to us as we use a reporting system that incorporates accidents, incidents, near misses and hazards on one form, which is then analysed and acted upon, e.g. reviewing/generating risk assessments, RIDDOR etc

You're all wrong. My mum defined both injury and near miss as a "mishap" - mother is never wrong!!