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LATEST NEWS & EVENTS Workplace injury and ill health figures improve  New figures show a welcome fall in the number of people injured or made unwell at work. Statistics from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) reveal there were 24,726 major injuries reported between April 2010 and March 2011, which could have seen some people seek advice from a personal injury lawyer in Southampton. It represents a fall of over 1,500 injuries, which include amputations, fractures and burns, from the previous 12-month period. Meanwhile, over 90,000 injuries were serious enough to keep people off work for at least four days, down from over 96,000 in the 2009/10 period. An estimated 1.2 million people are suffering from an illness caused or made worse by their work, down from 1.3 million in 2009/10. Despite the falls, the number of people killed at work rose to 171 from 147 in the previous year. HSE chair Judith Hackitt said: "Britain can be proud that it has one of the best health and safety records in Europe but ... we can never let up in our commitment to addressing the serious risks which continue to cause death and injury in workplaces." Meanwhile, figures from Group Risk Development released to mark Stress Awareness Day show stress-related ill health is a major cause of long-term absence from work. Posted by Paul Stevens 
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