Department for Work and Pensions written question – answered on 14th September 2017.
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many (1) deaths, and (2) serious injuries, (a) on farms, and (b) in the agricultural sector, have occurred in each year since 1990 until the last year for which records are available.
The available information is given in the following tables.
Table 1: Number of fatal injuries to both workers (employees and the self-employed) and members of the public (a) on farms and (b) in the agricultural sector each year (where data is available) from 1990/91-2016/17. | |||||
Source: Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) | |||||
Farms (a) | Agriculture Sector (b) | ||||
Year | Workers | Members of the public | Workers | Members of the public | |
1990/91 | - | - | 52 | 15 | |
1991/92 | - | - | 50 | 5 | |
1992/93 | - | - | 40 | 12 | |
1993/94 | - | - | 38 | 3 | |
1994/95 | - | - | 46 | 5 | |
1995/96 | - | - | 40 | 5 | |
1996/97 | - | - | 55 | 9 | |
1997/98 | - | - | 40 | 11 | |
1998/99 | - | - | 46 | 9 | |
1999/00 | - | - | 36 | 8 | |
2000/01 | - | - | 46 | 7 | |
2001/02 | 37 | 2 | 39 | 2 | |
2002/03 | 29 | 3 | 35 | 3 | |
2003/04 | 19 | 6 | 44 | 6 | |
2004/05 | 30 | 3 | 37 | 3 | |
2005/06 | 32 | 8 | 33 | 8 | |
2006/07 | 28 | 7 | 33 | 7 | |
2007/08 | 41 | 1 | 46 | 2 | |
2008/09 | 22 | 5 | 25 | 5 | |
2009/10 | 35 | 5 | 39 | 5 | |
2010/11 | 30 | 7 | 34 | 8 | |
2011/12 | 27 | 6 | 35 | 6 | |
2012/13 | 29 | 5 | 31 | 5 | |
2013/14 | 26 | 4 | 27 | 4 | |
2014/15 | 30 | 3 | 32 | 4 | |
2015/16r | 26 | 2 | 27 | 2 | |
2016/17p | 26 | 3 | 27 | 3 |
Table 2: Number of reported non-fatal injuries to employees (a) on farms and (b) in the agricultural sector each year (where data is available) from 1990/91 to 2015/16 | ||
Source: Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) | ||
Year | Farms (a) | |
1990/91 | - | 1,761 |
1991/92 | - | 1,827 |
1992/93 | - | 1,844 |
1993/94 | - | 1,760 |
1994/95 | - | 1,721 |
1995/96 | - | 1,687 |
1996/97 | - | 2,135 |
1997/98 | - | 2,005 |
1998/99 | - | 1,863 |
1999/00 | - | 2,067 |
2000/01 | - | 1,967 |
2001/02 | 1,852 | 2,066 |
2002/03 | 1,488 | 1,680 |
2003/04 | 985 | 1,175 |
2004/05 | 951 | 1,147 |
2005/06 | 892 | 1,058 |
2006/07 | 806 | 986 |
2007/08 | 908 | 1,117 |
2008/09 | 967 | 1,143 |
2009/10 | 996 | 1,183 |
2010/11 | 800 | 948 |
2011/12 | 881 | 1,110 |
2012/13 (c) | 681 | 861 |
2013/14 (c) | 688 | 861 |
2014/15r (c) | 785 | 936 |
2015/16p (c) | 727 | 883 |
Footnotes | ||
Non-fatal injury data for 2016/17 will be published in November 2017 | ||
(a) Farms defined as Division 02, Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities, of the 2007 Standard Industrial Classification. | ||
(b) Agriculture defined as Section A, Agriculture, forestry and fishing, of the 2007 Standard Industrial Classification. | ||
(c) Due to a major change in the RIDDOR reporting requirements in April 2012, injuries reported prior to 2012/13 are not directly comparable with later years. | ||
- Due to changes in the Standard Industrial Classification, data only available for Farming from 2001/02 | ||
r- revised; p- provisional |
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