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Data Provider: Welsh Government National Statistics Casualties by nature of injury and financial year
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[Collapse]2009-10Data on incidents from April 2009 onwards are taken from the department for Communities and Local Government\'s (CLG) Incident Recording System (IRS).[Collapse]2010-11[Collapse]2011-12[Collapse]2012-13[Collapse]2013-14Revised data.[Collapse]2014-15Provisional data.
[Expand]Click here to sortFatalitiesA Fatal Casualty is a person whose death is attributed to a fire even if the death occurred weeks or months later. However it is not always the case that fire was the cause of death and the figures for fatalities are thus subject to revision, as information supplied by the fire and rescue service needs to be cross-checked against the cause of death that appears on the death certificate. The main area of uncertainty is whether fire was the cause of death in road accident fatalities. All figures in this cube are the finalised death figures for all years.[Expand]Click here to sortAll Non Fatal CasualtiesNon Fatal Casualties are recorded as being in one of four classes of severity as follows: (i) Victim went to hospital, injuries appear to be serious; (ii) Victim went to hospital, injuries appear to be slight; (iii) First aid given at scene; (iv) Precautionary check recommended – this is when an individual is sent to hospital or advised to see a doctor as a precaution, having no obvious injury or distress. Non-fatal casualties marked as \'not fire-related\' have not been excluded due to widespread inappropriate use of this field. The issue is being investigated by the department for Communities and Local Government (CLG). Totals are not re-calculated when sub-categories are de-selected.[Expand]Click here to sortFatalitiesA Fatal Casualty is a person whose death is attributed to a fire even if the death occurred weeks or months later. However it is not always the case that fire was the cause of death and the figures for fatalities are thus subject to revision, as information supplied by the fire and rescue service needs to be cross-checked against the cause of death that appears on the death certificate. The main area of uncertainty is whether fire was the cause of death in road accident fatalities. All figures in this cube are the finalised death figures for all years.[Expand]Click here to sortAll Non Fatal CasualtiesNon Fatal Casualties are recorded as being in one of four classes of severity as follows: (i) Victim went to hospital, injuries appear to be serious; (ii) Victim went to hospital, injuries appear to be slight; (iii) First aid given at scene; (iv) Precautionary check recommended – this is when an individual is sent to hospital or advised to see a doctor as a precaution, having no obvious injury or distress. Non-fatal casualties marked as \'not fire-related\' have not been excluded due to widespread inappropriate use of this field. The issue is being investigated by the department for Communities and Local Government (CLG). Totals are not re-calculated when sub-categories are de-selected.[Expand]Click here to sortFatalitiesA Fatal Casualty is a person whose death is attributed to a fire even if the death occurred weeks or months later. However it is not always the case that fire was the cause of death and the figures for fatalities are thus subject to revision, as information supplied by the fire and rescue service needs to be cross-checked against the cause of death that appears on the death certificate. The main area of uncertainty is whether fire was the cause of death in road accident fatalities. All figures in this cube are the finalised death figures for all years.[Expand]Click here to sortAll Non Fatal CasualtiesNon Fatal Casualties are recorded as being in one of four classes of severity as follows: (i) Victim went to hospital, injuries appear to be serious; (ii) Victim went to hospital, injuries appear to be slight; (iii) First aid given at scene; (iv) Precautionary check recommended – this is when an individual is sent to hospital or advised to see a doctor as a precaution, having no obvious injury or distress. Non-fatal casualties marked as \'not fire-related\' have not been excluded due to widespread inappropriate use of this field. The issue is being investigated by the department for Communities and Local Government (CLG). Totals are not re-calculated when sub-categories are de-selected.[Expand]Click here to sortFatalitiesA Fatal Casualty is a person whose death is attributed to a fire even if the death occurred weeks or months later. However it is not always the case that fire was the cause of death and the figures for fatalities are thus subject to revision, as information supplied by the fire and rescue service needs to be cross-checked against the cause of death that appears on the death certificate. The main area of uncertainty is whether fire was the cause of death in road accident fatalities. All figures in this cube are the finalised death figures for all years.[Expand]Click here to sortAll Non Fatal CasualtiesNon Fatal Casualties are recorded as being in one of four classes of severity as follows: (i) Victim went to hospital, injuries appear to be serious; (ii) Victim went to hospital, injuries appear to be slight; (iii) First aid given at scene; (iv) Precautionary check recommended – this is when an individual is sent to hospital or advised to see a doctor as a precaution, having no obvious injury or distress. Non-fatal casualties marked as \'not fire-related\' have not been excluded due to widespread inappropriate use of this field. The issue is being investigated by the department for Communities and Local Government (CLG). Totals are not re-calculated when sub-categories are de-selected.[Expand]Click here to sortFatalitiesA Fatal Casualty is a person whose death is attributed to a fire even if the death occurred weeks or months later. However it is not always the case that fire was the cause of death and the figures for fatalities are thus subject to revision, as information supplied by the fire and rescue service needs to be cross-checked against the cause of death that appears on the death certificate. The main area of uncertainty is whether fire was the cause of death in road accident fatalities. All figures in this cube are the finalised death figures for all years.[Expand]Click here to sortAll Non Fatal CasualtiesNon Fatal Casualties are recorded as being in one of four classes of severity as follows: (i) Victim went to hospital, injuries appear to be serious; (ii) Victim went to hospital, injuries appear to be slight; (iii) First aid given at scene; (iv) Precautionary check recommended – this is when an individual is sent to hospital or advised to see a doctor as a precaution, having no obvious injury or distress. Non-fatal casualties marked as \'not fire-related\' have not been excluded due to widespread inappropriate use of this field. The issue is being investigated by the department for Communities and Local Government (CLG). Totals are not re-calculated when sub-categories are de-selected.[Expand]Click here to sortFatalitiesA Fatal Casualty is a person whose death is attributed to a fire even if the death occurred weeks or months later. However it is not always the case that fire was the cause of death and the figures for fatalities are thus subject to revision, as information supplied by the fire and rescue service needs to be cross-checked against the cause of death that appears on the death certificate. The main area of uncertainty is whether fire was the cause of death in road accident fatalities. All figures in this cube are the finalised death figures for all years.[Expand]Click here to sortAll Non Fatal CasualtiesNon Fatal Casualties are recorded as being in one of four classes of severity as follows: (i) Victim went to hospital, injuries appear to be serious; (ii) Victim went to hospital, injuries appear to be slight; (iii) First aid given at scene; (iv) Precautionary check recommended – this is when an individual is sent to hospital or advised to see a doctor as a precaution, having no obvious injury or distress. Non-fatal casualties marked as \'not fire-related\' have not been excluded due to widespread inappropriate use of this field. The issue is being investigated by the department for Communities and Local Government (CLG). Totals are not re-calculated when sub-categories are de-selected.
[Collapse]All injuries or causes of deathOnly main injuries are shown, priority is given to \'burns\' and being \'overcome by gas or smoke\'. However if both these injuries occur, these are recorded separately. Totals are not re-calculated when sub-categories are de-selected.235752160723592175411762621543
All injuries or causes of deathOnly main injuries are shown, priority is given to \'burns\' and being \'overcome by gas or smoke\'. However if both these injuries occur, these are recorded separately. Totals are not re-calculated when sub-categories are de-selected.Overcome by gas or smoke425262859269925793509258
Burns579794310618351048103
Burns and overcome by gas or smoke7233205104221805
ShockWhere \'physical injuries\' and \'shock\' occur, the physical injury is recorded023034027022024030
Physical InjuryWhere \'physical injuries\' and \'shock\' occur, the physical injury is recorded033029020024024039
Other21500126115011170107188
Not Known51551951021629320

Metadata

Title

Casualties from fires by nature of injury

Last update

July 2015 July 2015

Next update

July 2016

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Fire incident recording system, Department for Communities and Local Government

Contact email

stats.inclusion@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Designation

National Statistics

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Fire and rescue authorities

Geographical coverage

Fire and rescue authorities

Languages covered

English only

General description

The table shows the number of casualties from fires, by the nature of injury sustained.
Non-fatal casualties marked 'not fire-related' have not been excluded due to some concern within CLG that this field has not been correctly used. There is therefore a possible discontinuity in the non-fatal casualties time series between 2008-09 and 2009-10.

Since 2009-10 data have been extracted from the Incident Recording System (IRS). This is a live system and consequently it is possible that data extracted at a different time may not match the figures in this table. For instance the data published in the Performance Indicator tables are extracted in July and so are unlikely to match exactly those presented here.

Data prior to 2009-10 are taken from the FDR1 paper form data collection.
From 2009-10 onwards data are collected via the Incident Recording System (IRS).
Because of the different systems and changes to data collected, it is not possible to provide a full, comparable time series.
2009-10 data were extracted in May 2011.
2010-11 data were extracted in May 2012.
2011-12 data were extracted in May 2013.
2012-13 data were extracted in May 2014.
2013-14 and 2014-15 data were extracted in June 2015.
2014-15 data are provisional and will be revised next year.

Source: Department for Communities and Local Government
Contact: stats.inclusion@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Data collection and calculation

Data prior to 2009-10 were collected via the Fire Data Report (FDR) paper forms.
Data from 2009-10 onwards were collected via the Incident Recording System (IRS).

Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

Financial years 2001-02 to 2014-15

Users, uses and context

The data are used to inform policy decisions and to provide contextual information. The data is used by the Welsh Government to help monitor trends in incidents attended by FRSs over time and provides information on FRSs’ performance and activities to citizens and communities in Wales.
See web link for further information.

Rounding applied

None

Revisions information

Revisions are marked with an (r). The most recent year currently shown is provisional and may be revised when the table is next updated.

Statistical quality

See web link

Keywords

Fire, Fire and Rescue Service, casualties, fatal, non-fatal, injury, burns, first aid,

Name

CSAF0046