APPENDICES
APPENDIX 19
(Chapter 8: Employment)
Reported Occupational Accidents
438
Cause
Machinery: power driven
Machinery: non power driven
Transport
Explosion or fire
1990
1991
1992*
Non-
Non-
Non-
Fatal
fatal
Total
Fatal
fatal
Total
Fatal
fatal
Total
24
9 064
9 088
20
6 436
6456
10
2987
2997
123
123
1
114
115
1
52
53
57
3 713
3 770
56
3 196
3 252
45
1 708
1753
6
590
596
12
482
494
7
350
357
Hot or corrosive substance
1 5 466
5 467
Gassing, poisoning and other toxic
substances
4
80
84
|
5373
5 373
2973
2973
61
61
4
30
245
34
Electricity
164
172
7
117
124
7
41
48
Fall of person
50
10 909
10 959
45
11 155
11 200
33
7 175
7 208
Stepping on, striking against
or struck by objects
5
24 116
24 121
10
25 390
25 400
12 318
12 329
Falling object
14
4 377
4 391
8
3 603
3 611
3
1 882
1 885
Fall of ground
1
23
24
1
16
17
1
18
19
Handling without machinery
1
14 433
14 434
-
12 376
12 376
1 8 706
8 707
Hand tool
Miscellaneous
Causes not yet ascertained
Total
9 984
9 984
9 223
9 223
I
5 190
5 190
88
6 222
6310
85
5 234
5319
70
3 448
3 518
1
5 430
5 430
4 824
4 824
79
28 469
28 548
259§
94 694
94 953
2458
87 600
87 845
2728
75 347
75 619
Note:
* Figures for 1992 are subject to amendment.
§ Including 15 (in 1990), 18 (in 1991) and 26 (in 1992) which were subsequently verified to be outside the scope of the Employees' Compensation
Ordinance because the employees concerned died of natural causes unrelated to work.