Tom Blenkinsop – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Work and Pensions
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Tom Blenkinsop on 2016-09-02.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many accidents have occurred in mines in each of the last five years.
Penny Mordaunt
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) operational data is derived from reports made under duties contained in the Reporting of Injuries and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations 2013 (RIDDOR) (and earlier versions). It is as follows:
|
Year |
No. of reported injuries in underground mines in Great Britain* ** |
|
1 April 2011 – 31 March 2012 |
204 |
|
1 April 2012 – 31 March 2013 |
146 |
|
1 April 2013 – 31 March 2014 |
114 |
|
1 April 2014 – 31 March 2015 |
75 |
|
1 April 2015 – 31 March 2016 |
52 |
|
1 April 2016 – 31 August 2016 |
21 |
* A key change to RIDDOR occurred in April 2012, ie the threshold for reporting of those injuries to workers which result in the person being incapacitated for more than three days changed to over seven days.
** It should be noted that the reducing trend is, in part, due to the reduction in the number of large working mines in recent years.
