NUMBER OF PERSONS REPORTED AS KILLED IN INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM,* 1910-1924.

GENERAL SUMMARY, 1910-1924.

[For detailed statistics see pages 155 to 163].

Factory and Workshop Acts.

Coal Mines Acts.

* For 1922 and after (1923 and after in the case of Shipping) the figures relate to Great Britain and Northern Ireland only.

† See § note on pages 156-7.

For periods covered by shipping statistics, see detailed Table on page 159. § Exclusive of deaths of seamen resulting from enemy action.

NUMBER OF PERSONS KILLED IN ACCIDENTS REPORTED UNDER THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.* ANALYSIS BY CAUSE AND CLASS OF INDUSTRY, 1910-1924. [Compiled from the Annual Reports of the Chief Inspector of Factories and Workshops, supplemented by information specially supplied by the Government of Northern Ireland.]

Statistics for 1922-4 relate to Great Britain and Northern Ireland only.

† Accidents caused by "Escape of Steam" were also included under "Gassing" prior to 1921, and accidents caused by "Hot Liquids" were included under "Molten Metal" prior to 1920.

Included under "Other "fatal accidents.

Included in the total are a few cases in Northern Ireland as to which particulars of cause are not

available.

NUMBER OF PERSONS KILLED IN ACCIDENTS REPORTED UNDER

ANALYSIS BY

[Compiled from the Annual Reports of the Chief Inspector of Factories Government of

• Statistics for 1922-4 relate to Great Britain and Northern Ireland only. Owing to a revision of the industrial groups, the figures given for 1921 and subsequent years are of Metals; Wood; Clay, Stone, etc.; Chemicals; Paper, Printing, etc.; and "Other "Non-Textile Included under "Other" Non-Textile Industries.

§ The railways covered by the Factory and Workshop Act are the privately owned railways and sidings accidents occurring at the particular factories. For accidents on railways owned by Railway Companies

THE FACTORY AND WORKSHOP ACTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.*

INDUSTRIES, 1910-1924.

and Workshops, supplemented by information specially supplied by the Northern Ireland.]

not on exactly the same basis as those for previous years in the following groups: Founding and Conversion Industries. See also ‡ and § notes.

belonging to factories; accidents on these railways were not, prior to 1921, distinguished from other see pages 160-3.

NUMBER OF PERSONS KILLED IN ACCIDENTS REPORTED UNDER THE COAL MINES ACTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM,* 1910-1924. [Compiled from the Annual Reports on Mines and Quarries issued by the Home Office up to 1919 and by the Mines Department thereafter, supplemented by information specially supplied by the Government of Northern Ireland.]

Statistics for 1922-1924 relate to Great Britain and Northern Ireland only. In consequence of the national stoppage of work at coal mines, almost all the mines were idle for about three months of 1921.

Great Britain only; the output for Northern Ireland is not available.

NOTE.-The number of persons employed in and about mines under the Coal Mines Act in Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1924 was 1,230,428, viz., 979,218 underground and 251,210 above ground. Information is not available as to the total output of mineral, but in Great Britain alone the quantity of mineral raised in 1924 was 275,301,859 tons, of which 267,061,027 tons were coal. (The output of mineral for Northern Ireland for 1923 was 4,500 tons, none of which was coal.)

NUMBER OF PERSONS KILLED IN ACCIDENTS REPORTED UNDER THE METALLIFEROUS MINES REGULATION ACTS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM,* 1910-1924.

[Compiled from the Annual Reports on Mines and Quarries issued by the Home Office up to 1919 and by the Mines Department thereafter, supplemented by information specially supplied by the Government of Northern Ireland.]

Statistics for 1922-1924 relate to Great Britain and Northern Ireland only. NOTE. The number of persons employed at mines under the Metalliferous Mines Regulation Act in Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1924 was 15,971, viz., 9,277 underground and 6,694 above ground