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Home Counties
| Fractured rib | Accident occurred at a swimming pool where an obstacle course had been set up aross the water. A 47 year old woman was assisting her children to negotiate the course when she slipped and fell between the course and the side of the pool.
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| London & South East | Fracture (trunk region of body)
| Carpenter installing floor joists. One installed but not properly located on the joint hanger. When stood on it twisted and the carpenter fell through the gap.
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| London & South East | Near drowning
| Near drowning to a young person in a local authority swimming pool.
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| London & South East | Upper limb fracture
| A full refuse cart was on landfill site to discharge contents. The roadway gave way injuring all occupants in the cab.
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| London & South East | Fracture (trunk region of body)
| As above. |
| Yorkshire & North East | Fractured foot
| Fitter fell three metres when completing repair of tie bar at coke ovens.
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| Scotland | Damaged tendon |
Child playing on an embankment grabbed hold of wire stay of telephone pole and allegedly sustained an electric shock and damaged a tendon in her thumb. Taken to hospital for surgery.
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| Wales & West | Fractured arms and pelvis
| Worker fell from pole/ladder. (Details thin).
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| Wales & West | Crushed ribcage
| Accident occurred during plant removal operation in a creamery. A frame gantry ran away as vessel was being turned. Report alleged injured person departed from safe system of work and was subsequently disciplined.
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| Wales & West | Injury to finger requiring hospital treatment
| High pressure paint injection into finger. Poor systems of work for clearing blockage.
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| Wales & West | Fracture to lower vertebra
| Lift engineer fell 2.5 metres due to collapse of ladder.
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| Wales & West | Fractured femur
| Patient in nursing home fell from a bath hoist.
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| Wales & West | Crush injury to hand
| Building worker fell into a screed pump due to a diabetic collapse. Guard had been removed and overridden previously; repaired, but then removed again by sub-contractors on the day of the accident.
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| Midlands | Fractured wrist |
Failure of an aerial runway in a university theatre resulting in a fall of approximately two metres.
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| Midlands | Fractured ribs |
Accident during construction work. Carpenter/joiner fell from a board "elevated to a height of 400 centimetres".
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