Injuries, absentee rates and fatalities (LA7)
Figures are reported from all parts of the organisation on a quarterly basis as part of the regular reporting system. An accident reduction programme that was started in 2006 had lowered the accident rate at work by a third by year-end of 2008.
2008 | 2007 | 2006 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reported accidents at work (per 1,000 employees) |
7.3 | 8.7 | 11.1 |
| Commuting accidents (per 1,000 employees) |
4.5 | 3.9 | 5.0 |
| Number of lost days per employee due to accidents |
0.1 | 0.1 | 0.2 |
| Sick leave (%) | 3.1 | 3.1 | 3.4 |
| Work-related fatalities | 21 | 72 | 43 |
Figures are reported from all parts of the organisation on a quarterly basis, as part of the regular reporting system.Accident is defined as an acute incident that occurred in the course of work, and which resulted in personal injury. Staff accidents includes electrical accidents. Commuting accident is defined as accidents occurring during travel to or from work. Work-related fatalities include external contractors. For the occupational disease rate (ODR), qualitative data is not available at the Group level. However, occupational diseases are followed up in accordance with national practice by the health and safety organisation and management.
1) On 23 January, a contractor was hit by a falling object during maintenance of a high voltage cable in Hamburg, Germany. On 10 November, one employee died in a commuting accident.
2) Employee – Electrocution during maintenance work on 30 kV cable Riddarhyttan, Sweden, 14 September; Contractor – Fall from 40 m high pylon, Bad Tennstedt, Sachsen-Anhalt, 17 May; Employee – commuting accident in car, Mulkwitz, Sachsen, 24 June; Contractor – fall from height, Boxberg power plant, 7 August; Contractor – fall from height while dismantling a work platform, Markersbach pumped storage plant, 28 September; Employee – crushed between a truck and a wheel loader, Reichwalde open-cast mine, 22 November; Employee – crushed under a transformer while replacing it, Berlin–Tempelhof, 1 Dec.
3) One external subcontractor bled to death following an accident with a grinding machine, two workers from external contractors died in a scaffolding erection accident, and one contractor died when he was hit by a falling tree, when cutting a tree under/near one of Vattenfall’s power lines.
