Rubber industry – Accident statistics

The data used is from the following sub sectors of the rubber and tyre industry: -

• 25110 Manufacture of rubber tyres and tubes
• 25120 Retreading and rebuilding of rubber tyres
• 25130 Manufacture of other rubber products

The following tables for the rubber industry use data from HSE’s Reporting of Injuries Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) database for the rubber industry including fatality rate per 100,000 employees.

Total number of incidents with incident rate per 100,000 employees

Rubber industry incident rate in comparison with manufacturing rate

Number of reported fatal incidents with incident rate by 100,000 employees

Number and severity of incidents by SIC from 2005/6 data

SIC	Fatal	Major	Over 3 day	Total
25110		15	162	177
25120		4	16	20
25130	1	34	209	244
Total	1	53	387	441

In comparison with 2004/05 RIDDOR data the number of reported incidents for the rubber industry has decreased in reporting year 2005/06p. Reported ‘major’ incidents decreased from 66 to 53 with ‘over 3-day’ incidents decreasing from 392 to 387.

Status of injured persons by SIC from 2005/06 data.

Severity	Status description	25110	25120	25130	Total
Fatal	Employee			1	1
Major	Employee	15	4	34	53
Over 3 day	Employee	161	16	209	386
	Work experience	1			1
Total		177	20	244	441

Site of injury over a two-year period by severity

Site of injury		Fatal		Major		Over 3 day
		04/05	05/06p	04/05	05/06p	04/05	05/06p
Head	Eye			1	3	7	3
	Other parts of face			1		3	2
	Head (excluding face)			1	1	7	3
	Total head locations	0	0	3	4	17	8
Torso	Neck					5	2
	Back			1		115	91
	Trunk			6	1	15	14
	Several locations of torso			1
	Total torso locations	0	0	8	1	135	107
Upper Limb	One or more finger / thumb			8	6	78	68
	Hand			11	5	27	31
	Wrist			9	14	24	18
	Rest of upper limb			6	9	35	44
	Several locations of upper limb			2		3	3
	Total upper limb	0	0	36	34	167	164
Lower Limb	One or more toes					6	3
	Foot			9	7	13	21
	Ankle			1	2	12	14
	Rest of lower limb			7	3	22	40
	Several locations of lower limb						1
	Total lower limb	0	0	17	12	53	79
All Locations	Several locations			5	2	24	27
	General locations		1
	Unspecified locations						2
	Total all locations	0	1	5	2	24	29
Grand Total		0	1	69	53	396	387

Back injuries continued to be the main cause of reported over three day incidents in the Rubber Industry with injuries to one or more finger / thumb being second. The majority of major incidents involved injuries to parts of the Upper Limbs.

Kind of incident over a two-year period by SIC

2-digit kind and description	25110		25120		25130
	04/05	05/06p	04/05	05/06p	04/05	05/06p
Injured while handling, lifting or carrying	84	87	8	6	122	112
Slipped, tripped or fell on the same level	25	32	2	3	56	36
Hit by moving, flying or falling object	23	13	6	5	32	36
Machinery	12	21	2	3	37	26
Hit by something fixed or stationary	7	7	2		12	13
Fell from height	4	2	1	1	10	8
Harmful substance	1	7		1	6	3
Other	2	6			3	4
Hit by a moving vehicle	5			1	2	2
No information		2
Fire						2
Physically assaulted						1
Trapped by something collapsing or overturning						1
Electricity					1
Total	163	177	21	20	281	244

SIC 25110 – The majority of injuries are sustained whilst handling, lifting or carrying followed by slips, trips or falls on the same level and then machinery incidents.

SIC 25120 – The majority of injuries are sustained whilst handling, lifting or carrying, followed by hit by a moving, flying or falling object then jointly slips, trips and falls on the same level and machinery incidents.

SIC 25130 - The top two causes of injuries are sustained whilst handling, lifting or carrying and through slips, trips and falls on the same level.

p = provisional