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Fatalities and Serious Injuries
In the first half of 2007, there were 29 fatalities and 75 serious injuries reported. The number of fatalities appears to be on the high end, as there were 45 fatalities alone for the whole of 2006. The high number may be explained by the inclusion of January and February, the two summer months, which would suggest most incidents occur in the first half of the year.
Incident Types in Fatal and Serious Injury Incidents
Of the 22 incidents involving fatalities and 67 incidents involving serious injuries, the following graphs provide the top 5 incident types for each:
Capsizing and person overboard are the largest incident types in fatal incidents and account for 45% of all such incidents. Hits, falls and collisions are the predominant incident types in serious injury incidents.
Contributing Factors in Fatal and Serious Injury Incidents
Of the 22 fatal incidents, there were 25 reported contributing factors, although 8 of these were unknown. Of the 67 serious injury incidents, there were 94 reported contributing factors, including 16 being unknown.
The following graphs provide a breakdown of the top 5 contributing factors in fatal and serious injury incidents:
Human and environmental factors made up a significant proportion of contributing factors in both fatal and serious injury incidents. In fatal incidents, environmental factors were the largest group, making up 47% of all contributing factors. This was followed by human factors, making up 41% of all contributing factors. In serious injury incidents, human factors made up 62% of contributing factors followed by environmental factors, making up 33% of all contributing factors. Material factors were largely under-represented in fatal and serious injury incidents.
