India

Organization responsible for the statistics

Ministry of Labour, Directorate General of Mines Safety.

Source

Labour Inspectorate Records.

Coverage

Persons:

All persons employed in mines.

Economic activities:

Mines only.

Geographic areas:

Whole country.

Establishments:

All sizes and types of establishments.

Types of occupational accidents covered

Reported injuries due to all types of occupational accidents.

Concepts and definitions

Not available.

Minimum period of absence from work: not available.

Maximum period for death to be considered a fatal occupational injury: not available.

Documentation

Bibliographic references:

The data are published in:

Directorate General of Mines Safety: Statistics of Mines in India, Vol. II.

Data published by ILO:

The following data are furnished regularly to the ILO for publication in the Yearbook of Labour Statistics, relating to reported injuries in mines: number of persons fatally injured, number of persons injured with lost workdays, total of these two groups; rates of fatal injuries. The number of persons at risk (total number of persons employed in mines) is also supplied and stored in the LABORSTA database.

Additional information

Statistics on occupational injuries in factories are collected and published by the Labour Bureau, on the basis of reports submitted under the Factories Act, 1948; data for railways and ports are collected by the respective authorities and transmitted to the Labour Bureau.

These statistics, along with those for mines, are published in Labour Bureau: Indian Labour Statistics (annual).

The following series are available:

Number and incidence rate (per 1,000 workers) of persons injured, by fatal or non-fatal, in factories, mines, railways and ports. Number of persons injured in factories submitting returns, by fatal or non-fatal and by:

state or union territory;
economic activity;
cause: prime movers; machinery moved by mechanical power (transmission machinery, lifting machinery, machine tools for metal working, wood-working machinery, other machinery moved by mechanical power); machinery not moved by mechanical power; transport whether moved by power or not (railways, others); electricity; explosions; fires; gassing; molten metals and other hot or corrosive substances; hand tools; falling bodies; persons falling; stepping on or striking against objects; handling goods or articles; others.