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Handling injuries include: strains; sprains; lifting, carrying, pushing or pulling loads; trapped fingers and cuts from sharp objects.
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Since the introduction of a new RIDDOR coding system and changes in the definition of specified and lost time injuries injury numbers and rates cannot be directly compared with earlier years.
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Handling was formerly the most common kind of injury reported. From 2012/13, this has not been the case, due to the reduction in numbers following the change from over-three-day to over-seven-day reporting
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Reporters classified a lower proportion of injuries as handling and a greater proportion as “Unknown” or “Other”, (RIDDOR) but
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LFS estimates do not show significantly lower handling injury rates than in the period from 2008/09-2011/12; (LFS); and
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the loss of handling sub-category information. Before 2011/12, handling was subdivided into more detailed kinds, such as “lifting or putting down loads”.
