Written answers
Tuesday, 13 December 2005
Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Accidents at Work
11:00 pm
Liam Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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Question 284: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of days lost to industry in 2004 due to injuries and accidents at work; and the estimated cost of loss of these working days to industry in 2004. [39112/05]
Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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I understand from the Central Statistics Office that the only 2004 figures available from it on the number of days lost due to injuries and accidents at work relate to the period December 2003 to February 2004. Table 1 sets out the most recent available information for the relevant period in each of the years 1998, 2002, 2003 and 2004. In the first quarter of 2004, 1,374,813 workdays were lost due to work-related injuries and illnesses. Table 2 below contains information obtained from the Department of Social and Family Affairs on occupational injury benefit claims for 2004. I do not have figures on the estimated cost to industry of the loss of these working days in 2004.
| Table 1: Persons in employment who suffered injury or illness by total number of days lost** 000s | ||||
| Q2 1998 | Q1 2002 | Q1 2003* | Q1 2004* | |
| In employment | ||||
| Injury | 1,494.5 | 1,745.5 | 1,772.0 | 1,835.9 |
| Total persons suffering injury | 43.1 | 51.8 | 43.1 | 54.4 |
| Rate per hundred | 1.7 | 1.5 | 1.2 | 3.0 |
| Days lost | 769,200 | 857,300 | 610,400 | 782,909 |
| Illness | ||||
| Total persons suffering illness | 26.1 | 33.0 | 38.1 | 46.3 |
| Rate per hundred | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.0 | 2.5 |
| Days lost | 397,300 | 583,700 | 675,700 | 591,904 |
| Total incidence | 69.2 | 84.8 | 81.2 | 100.7 |
| Total days lost | 1,166,500 | 1,441,000 | 1,286,100 | 1,374,813 |
| *Figures relate to most recent injury only. | ||||
| **Days lost data should be interpreted with care as respondents may have included potential days lost. |
| Table 2: Workplace accidents for 2004. | |||
| Number of OIB*** claims accepted | Number of Employees | Rate per 100,000 employees | |
| 2004 | 11,705 | 1,835,900 | 638 |
| ***Occupational injury benefit claims under the Department of Social and Family Affairs. |
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