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Every year hundreds of employees make accident at work claims after having suffered an injury caused by an employer's negligence or disregard for health and safety legislation.
The HSE's 2009/10 accident at work statistics showed that there were great overall improvements in the work accident figures, compared to the years before, although some small increases were noted in a few areas from April 2009 to March 2010.
These may have been due to fewer people being employed because of the economic downturn, especially in the construction industry.
There was an increase in work-related stress figures quoted in the 2009/10 report which may have been connected to the fear employees had of losing their jobs or the general economic and political uncertainty.
An increase in other work-related illnesses, including asbestos-related conditions such as mesothelioma, was also registered in the data for the 12 months, but there was no change in the number of recorded musculoskeletal disorders for the same period.
Work fatalities
According to statistics there were more than 150 workers were fatally injured from April 2009 to March 2010, which may seem a large number but was a greatly improved figure when compared with statistics from the previous ten years. The worst year for fatalities in that decade was 2001.
Trades which were found to suffer from the highest fatality rates in 2009/10 were the construction and agricultural industries, where labourers work with heavy loads and dangerous machinery.
Work injuries
Statistics showed that there were more than 26,000 accidents resulting in what were classified as major injuries in 2009/10.
The most common causes of these major injuries were slips, trips and falls from height. These could have resulted in the victim making an accident at work claim if the incident was not their fault.
The estimated percentage of injuries which were reported was perhaps surprisingly only 57%. That figure was calculated by using data collected from the Labour Force Survey and RIDDOR (The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations, 1995).
Despite the nature of the figures released by the HSE for 2009/10, Britain was still one of the safest places to work in the EU during those 12 months.
Would you like to make an accident at work claim?
If you have been unlucky enough to have had a work accident which was not your fault and resulted in a personal injury, then your employer could be found liable and you could claim compensation.
Our UK personal injury solicitors work on a no win, no fee basis and you can be sure to receive 100% compensation should your claim be successful.
Fill in our short online claim form or phone us on 0800 10 757 95 to see if you could receive compensation for your accident at work claim.
