Appendix 19
(Chapter 7: Employment)
Reported Occupational Accidents
Cause
Machinery: power driven
Machinery: non power driven
Transport
Explosions or fires
Hot or corrosive substances
Gassing, poisoning and other toxic
substances
377
1986
1987
1988
Non-
Non-
Non-
Fatal
fatal
Total
Fatal
fatal
Total
Fatal
fatal
Total
14
10 440+
10 454+
24
10 158
10 182
22
8 274
8 296
328+
328+
[ ].
-
37
3 120
3 157
254
255
2
175
177
40
3. 369
3 409
34
2052
2086
17
519
536
18
466
484
5
473
478
4918
4918
28
32
5 282
5 282
3
4 859
4 862
65
65
74
74
Electricity
9
164
173
10
143
153
7
100
107
Falls of persons
49+
11 381
11 430+
38
11 325
11 363
46
7 426
7 472
Stepping on or striking against
objects
6
14 374
14 380
2
22 874
22 876
6
21 174
21 180
Falling objects
Falls of grounds
Handling without machinery
Hand tools
Miscellaneous
Causes not yet ascertained
Total
8
5 989
5 997
6
5 331
5 337
12
3 519
3 531
2
11
13
2
11
13
1
30
31
7 768
8 063
"
7768
8063
10 194
10 194
7 871
7 871
10 341
10 342
7 926
7 926
75+
13 813
13 888+
87
12 934
13 021
77
12 877
12 954
5 964
5964
7.004
7. 004
23 680
23 680
221+
86 880
87 101†
228
97 281
97 509
216
102 980
103 196
Note: Figures for 1988 are subject to amendment.
+ Revised figures.