UK work place deaths.

[Fresh Fields]

Greetings from down under.

Was researching in historic New Zealand newspapers tonight, when a research quest led me to a Brevities column porportedly reporting UK work place deaths, as well as my search item.

Below a reconstruction clip; the item being covered by seven newspapers over a two year period.
This 1904 mention has interesting details, including deaths at sea.

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZMAIL19040203.2.101.9?query=107290%20&sort_by=byDA&items_per_page=10&phrase=2&snippet=true

So have just dialed up the latest UK stats
http://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/pdf/fatalinjuries.pdf
which gives 144 for the 2017/2018 year, plus another 100 members of the public also killed as a result thereof.

Work place conditions have dramatically improved, but are still nothing to be compacent about.

Alan.

[Top-of-the-hill]

  As I would have guessed, construction and agriculture in the top places. But then they are two of the main employers of manual workers. By which I don't mean unskilled.