Injury statistics

This page provides information on injuries reported under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) 1995 to the HSE and Local Authorities.

Fatal injuries

Fatal injury rates* to workers** in Motor Vehicle Repair(MVR)*** as reported to all enforcing authorities

* Employment data is not available for rates calculation before 2009/10
** Workers = employees and self-employed
*** As defined by Standard Industrial Classification SIC 2007 code '4520'

Fatal injuries to workers in Motor Vehicle Repair (MVR)*** as reported to all enforcing authorities 2001/02 to 2011/12p

During the whole period from 2001/02-2011/12p, the kinds of fatal injury to workers were:

Kinds of fatal Injury to workers in MVR, as percentage of total 2001/02 to 2011/12p

Non-fatal injuries

The following table shows the numbers of non-fatal injuries in MVR reported to the HSE and Local Authorities (LAs), for the 3 years 2009/10 to 2011/12p.

The rates per 100,000 employees are also included in the second table.

Non-fatal RIDDOR injuries are those defined as Major (typically, fractures, amputations) and those defined as Over 3 day (injuries which led to 4 or more days absence from the employee's normal work).

Before 12 September 2011, RIDDOR reporting was mainly by telephone to the Incident Contact Centre. Subsequently, reporting was primarily by an online based system via the HSE website. Consequently, there may be some discontinuities in data whilst this new system beds in. [For example the total numbers of injuries were substantially lower in 2011/12p than in the previous two years as shown in the table and "All other kinds and unknown" figure doubled in 2011/12p from the 2009/10 and 2010/11 figures.] Another effect of this change is to how the SIC codes were allocated.

From 2011/12 onwards, HSE will only be able to provide injury numbers for Majors and injuries leading to more than 7 days absence from the employee's normal work.

RIDDOR reported non-fatal injuries to employees in Motor Vehicle Repair (MVR)* by kind of accident 2009/10 to 2011/12p

*As defined by Standard Industrial Classification SIC 2007 code '4520'

Non-fatal injury rates to employees in Motor Vehicle Repair (MVR) * as reported to all enforcing authorities 2009/10 to 2011/12p

* As defined by Standard Industrial Classification SIC 2007 code '4520'

Annual non-fatal injury numbers to employees in motor vehicle repair (SIC 4520)