Table 1: Number of fatal injuries to both workers (employees and the self-employed) and members of the public (a) on farms and (b) in the agricultural sector, 2011/12-2020/21.

Source: Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR)

Farms (a)

Agriculture Sector (b)

Year

Workers

Members of the public

Workers

Members of the public

2011/12

27

6

35

6

2012/13

29

5

31

5

2013/14

26

4

27

4

2014/15

30

3

32

4

2015/16

26

2

27

2

2016/17

25

3

26

3

2017/18

27

3

29

4

2018/19

31

6

32

7

2019/20r

18

1

21

2

2020/21p

32

7

34

7

Table 2: Number of reported (f) non-fatal injuries to employees (a) on farms and (b) in the agricultural sector each year 2011/12-2020/21.

Source: Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR)

Year

Farms (a)

Agriculture sector (b)

2011/12 (c)

881

1,110

2012/13 (d)

681

861

2013/14 (e)

688

861

2014/15

785

936

2015/16

733

890

2016/17

697

869

2017/18

664

814

2018/19

714

849

2019/20r

703

845

2020/21p

626

738

Footnotes

(a) Farms defined as Division 01, Crop and animal production, hunting and related service activities, of the 2007 Standard Industrial Classification.

(b) Agriculture defined as Section A, Agriculture, forestry and fishing, of the 2007 Standard Industrial Classification.

(c) Due to a major change in the RIDDOR non-fatal injury reporting requirements in April 2012, injuries reported prior to 2012/13 are not directly comparable with later years.

(d) RIDDOR reporting requirements for non-fatal injuries changed on 1 April 2012. From this date, non-fatal injuries resulting in more than 7 days absence from work (previously more than 3 days absence) or specified on a pre-defined list of major injuries were reportable.

(e) A further change in reporting requirements was introduced in October 2013 when the pre-defined list of reportable non-fatal injuries was updated.

(f) While RIDDOR requires employers to report certain workplace non-fatal injuries to workers, generally the more serious, it is known that employers substantially under-report these non-fatal injuries, particularly in relation to self-employed workers. Hence Table 2 presents number of reports for employees only.

r- revised; p- provisional