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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1990
FEWER KILLED IN INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS
THE NUMBER OF WORKERS KILLED IN MOST INDUSTRIES DROPPED IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE YEAR, DESPITE
INCREASE IN THE OVERALL
ACCIDENT RATE.
A SLIGHT
·
BY THE
LABOUR DEPARTMENT
RELEASED STATISTICS ACCORDING TO TODAY (THURSDAY), A TOTAL OF 19,319 ACCIDENTS WITH 33 FATALITIES REPORTED BETWEEN JANUARY AND JUNE THIS YEAR.
WERE
RECORDED IN
"COMPARED WITH 18,664 ACCIDENTS AND 45 FATALITIES
PER CENT INCREASE THE SAME PERIOD LAST YEAR, THESE REPRESENT A FOUR IN ACCIDENTS AND A 26 PER CENT DROP IN THE DEATH RATE," A DEPARTMENTAL SPOKESMAN SAID.
WHICH
"THE GREATEST INCREASE WAS IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY HAD GONE UP BY SIX PER CENT TO 9,226 ACCIDENTS, FOLLOWED BY A FOUR PER CENT INCREASE TO 1,884 ACCIDENTS IN THE MINING, QUARRYING, TRANSPORT AND SERVICING INDUSTRIES.
UTILITIES,
REPORTED 8.209
ACCIDENTS,
THE FIRST SIX
"THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY, WHICH ONLY REGISTERED A ONE PER CENT MARGINAL INCREASE OVER MONTHS LAST YEAR."
DROPPED FROM 31
HOWEVER, THE SPOKESMAN POINTED OUT THAT FATALITY RATES IN ALL THREE INDUSTRIES DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THIS YEAR, TO 25 CASES FOR CONSTRUCTION, NINE TO SIX CASES FOR MINING, QUARRYING,
AND SERVICING UTILITIES, MANUFACTURING.
TRANSPORT
AND
FIVE
TO
TWO
CASES
FOR
IN THE
INDUSTRIES, MANUFACTURING
THE
IN
TO
GREATEST INCREASE ACCIDENTS WAS IN THE SHIPBUILDING AND REPAIRING INDUSTRY, FROM 298
WEARING APPAREL AND 369, WHILE A NOTED DECREASE WAS RECORDED IN THE
CASES AND PLASTICS INDUSTRIES, DOWN RESPECTIVELY FROM 1,350 TO 1,218 FROM 532 TO 484 CASES.
CAUSES OF THE INDUSTRIAL THE SPOKESMAN NOTED THAT THE MAJOR ACCIDENTS WERE GENERALLY SIMILAR TO THOSE IN PREVIOUS YEARS.
AGAINST OBJECTS (6,261 CASES), (3,302
MACHINERY (3,127 HAND TOOLS (1,264 CASES) AND
"THEY INCLUDE STEPPING ON OR STRIKING CASES), MANUAL LIFTING OF GOODS CASES), FALL OF PERSONS (2,146 CASES), FALLING OBJECTS (1,167 CASES).
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OR HOT
HE SAID.
CORROSIVE
"THE REST RELATED TO TRANSPORT, EXPLOSION OR FIRE, ELECTRICITY AND OTHERS,'
SUBSTANCES,
33 WORKERS KILLED, 25 THE SPOKESMAN ADDED THAT OF THE EMPLOYED IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY, INCLUDING NINE KILLED IN FROM HEIGHTS, SEVEN BY MACHINERY, SIX BY FALLING OBJECTS AND ONE BY COLLAPSED SOIL, GAS POISONING OR OTHER TOXIC SUBSTANCES, STEPPING ON OR STRIKING AGAINST OBJECTS.
WERE
FALLS
EACH
AND
/DEATHS IN