3 Workers Killed Every Fortnight

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31135, 11 August 1966, Page 7

3 Workers Killed Every Fortnight

(Sew Zealand Press Association > WELLINGTON, August 9. Three workers are killed every fortnight in industrial accidents, according to the Government Statistician.

Compensation paid each year for industrial accidents is about £3,250,000, plus indirect costs about four times; this figure. Young male workers are the worst accident risk in industry, the figures show. Of the entire labour force, Ilf per cent are under 21 years of age, and of the 60,000 men who suffer “lost I time injuries" each year, 18} i per cent are in this age; group. Whereas the young female | worker is no accident risk, one in eight male workers!

ii under 21 each year suffers ; i* ‘lost time injury" which [takes him away from work. ’! For every accident which ’ causes lost time, there are i about 30 which require first- . aid treatment. , Over-all injuries thus total over one and a half million annually. Further figures show that I 20 workers are permanently [injured each week; every [hour, 30 are injured severely ; [ enough to lose an average [fortnight’s work; over a fouri year period, one in two .[workers under 21 suffers a i I “lost time injury.”