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Table XVII —Accidents in Industry, Calendar Year 1949 (Excludes Farming, Mining, Transport, Distributive Trades, and Personal Services, but Includes Manufacturing, Bush Work, and Building and Construction)

Note.—The number of accidents reported in 1949 shows a considerable increase over previous years, owing to the adoption of a different system of reporting as from the Ist April, 1949. From this date the figures have been compiled from information supplied mainly by the State Fire Insurance Office. It has not been possible to separate those accidents that occurred to non-factory workers or that were outside the restricted scope of the Scaffolding and Excavation Act, 1922, neither has it been possible to distinguish between bush work and bush sawmill work. Thus in respect of manufacturing industries many accidents to workers not within the Factories Act, 1946, are included—e.g., drivers associated with bakehouses and workers in town timber-yards. In respect of construction, this table and Table XIX cover, for example, all workers injured while digging trenches for sewerage, but the Act applies only where work is more than 5 ft. in depth from the top of the excavation.

Table XVIII —Accidents in Manufacturing Industries and Bush Work, Calendar Year 1949 (Excludes Farming, Mining, Transport, Distributive Trades, Personal Services, and Building and Construction)

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Number of Accidents. Age-group. To Males. To Females. Total. Under 16 95 14 109 16 to 20 2,186 169 2,355 21 to 24 2,428 93 2,521 25 to 34 3,950 117 4,067 35 to 44 3,234 117 3,351 45 to 54 1,977 86 2,063 55 and over 1,181 37 1,218: Not stated 506 23 529 Total 15,557 656 16,213

Cause. Temporary. Type of Injury Permanent Partial. Fatal. Total. Machinery . . 1,978 141 3 2,122 Vehicles 207 6 4 217 Explosions, fires, hot substances 485 3 3 491 Poisonous and corrosive substances 202 1 203 Electricity58 1 59 Falls of persons 1,704 13 2 1,719 Stepping on or striking against fixed object 842 5 847 Falling objects not being handled by person 940 12 1 953 injured Falls of earth, &c. 1 1 Handling objects 4,351 32 " 2 4,385 Hand tools 2,034 22 2,056 Animals 51 51 Foreign body in eye* 527 5 532 Foreign body in ear* 6 6 Miscellaneous 394 4 2 400 Totalf 13,780 244 18 14,042 * In former years some of these accidents would have been included in the machinery or hand-tools f See note to Table XVII.