Select Committee on Work and Pensions Fourth Report

APPENDIX 1

Injuries to employees and self employed people, fatal and non-fatal injuries to members of the public as reported to HSE - 1999/2003p

SCOTLAND

Severity of injury	Employment Status	94/95	95/96	96/97	97/98	98/99	99/00	00/01	01/02	02/03p
Fatal	Employees	16	25	28	28	26	23	25	24	26
	Self Employed	10	12	14	9	7	8	12	4	10
	Member of Public	5	6	10	6	8	9	8	7	10
Major	Employees	1389	1323	2010	2337	2400	2695	2758	2783	2796
	Self Employed	103	94	95	32	49	26	40	77	86
	Member of Public	660	606	1988	1373	1270
Over 3 Day	Employees	11546	10314	9889	10676	10623	11661	11135	10713	10192
	Self Employed	176	193	231	39	48	29	30	70	66
Non Fatal	Member of public						1549	1236	931	767

WALES

Severity of Injury	Employment Status	1999/00	2000/01	2001/02	2002/03p
Fatal	Employee	8	5	13	7
	Self Employed	4	6	4	5
	Member of Public	7	12	8	8
Major	Employee	1848	1534	1626	1528
	Self Employed	43	38	35	74
Over 3 Day	Employee	7330	7460	6984	6826
	Self Employed	29	31	37	46
Non Fatal	Member of Public	840	693	581	484

ENGLAND

Severity of Injury	Employment Status	1999/00	2000/01	2001/02	2002/03p
Fatal	Employee	124	172	157	140
	Self Employed	46	61	37	29
	Member of Public	86	94	73	71
Major	Employee	23623	22780	23102	23626
	Self Employed	564	552	817	905
Over 3 Day	Employee	113408	112408	109028	106256
	Self Employed	568	654	810	816
Non Fatal	Member of Public	19696	15842	10637	8777

Estimated prevalence and rates (%) of self-reported illness caused or made worse by work, by country, for people ever employed 2001/02

Country	Estimated prevalence (thousands)			Rate per 100 ever employed
		95% C.l.(a)			95% C.I.(a)
	Central	Lower	Upper	Central	Lower	Upper
England	2019	1957	2082	5.4	5.2	5.5
Scotland	174	156	191	4.5	4.0	4.9
Wales	135	118	151	6.2	5.5	6.9

Estimated prevalence and rates (%) of self-reported musculoskeletal disorders caused or made worse by work, by country, 2001/02

Country	Estimated prevalence (thousands)			Rate per 100 ever employed
		95% C.I.(a)			95% C.I.(a)
	Central	Lower	Upper	Central	Lower	Upper
England	980	937	1023	2.6	2.5	2.7
Scotland	85	73	98	2.2	1.9	2.5
Wales	61	50	71	2.8	2.3	3.3

Estimated prevalence and rates (%) of self-reported stress, depression or anxiety caused or made worse by work, by country, 2001/02

Country	Estimated prevalence (thousands)			Rate per 100 ever employed
		95% C.I.(a)			95% C.I. (a)
	Central	Lower	Upper	Central	Lower	Upper
England	494	462	525	1.3	1.2	1.4
Scotland	39	31	47	1.0	0.08	1.2
Wales	31	23	38	1.4	1.1	1.8

(a) = 95% Confidence Limits

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Prepared 23 July 2004