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<p>The number of fatal workplace accidents per year which subsequently resulted in
the prosecution of an employer are shown in the following table:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Year
(a)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>West Midlands (b)</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>England
& Wales (c)</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2010</strong></p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>82</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2011</strong></p></td><td><p>9</p></td><td><p>71</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2012</strong></p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>70</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2013</strong></p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>70</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2014</strong></p></td><td><p>7</p></td><td><p>67</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2015</strong></p></td><td><p>8</p></td><td><p>49</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2016</strong></p></td><td><p>2</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2017</strong></p></td><td><p>3</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2018</strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>6</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2019</strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>2020</strong></p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>(a) Commencing 1<sup>st</sup> January</p><p>(b) Defined by Government Office
Region</p><p>(c) Figures include the West Midlands</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Notes</p><p>
</p><p>The table shows fatalities reported under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases
and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR) 2013 and previous legislation and the
analysis is based on the incident date and where the subsequent prosecution action
has been completed.</p><p> </p><p>There can be significant delays between a reportable
incident and a prosecution concluding due to a number of reasons including: delays
in primacy for the investigation passing to HSE from the police, delays arising from
the need for an inquest etc. Consequently, there have no fatalities in 2019 or 2020
which have yet resulted in a concluded prosecution.</p><p> </p><p>Prosecutions taken
arising from a fatal investigation should not imply that the employer was liable for
the death but only that we had sufficient evidence of a breach of law and that it
was in the public interest to prosecute.</p><p> </p><p>The figures were extracted
from HSE’s live operational database and provide the picture on the date of extraction
– 8 October 2020 - this is not a static picture as there are ongoing investigations
for a number of the incidents, especially those which occurred in recent years.</p>
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