SLIPS, trips and falls caused 1,109 serious injuries to workers in Merseyside last year, according to figures released by the Health and Safety Executive.
In Merseyside, there were 318 major injuries and another 791 injuries resulting in workers having to take over three days off work.
The figures are highest in Liverpool with 45 major falls and 72 major slips and trips with 267 people having to take over three days off work.
There was one death in Ellesmere Port and Neston involving a fall.
The figures were released on the day the HSE launched a new phase of its Shattered Lives campaign, aimed at reducing slips, trips and falls.
Targeting sectors with a high number of incidents, the campaign will direct people to a new website.
Mike Cross, HSE Head of Operations in the North West, said: “These figures highlight the very real and serious nature of preventable deaths and injuries in the workplace.”
GO TO www.hse.gov.uk/shatteredlives
