In article ,
Andrew McKay writes:
On 18 Aug 2003 01:53:19 GMT, (Andrew
Gabriel) wrote:

Deaths due to electrical installation faults in the home runs at
around 5 per year, and falling. Deaths due to other accidental
incidents in the home runs at around 2350 per year, most of which
are from slips trips and falls, and although I have no figures,
I'll but many more than 5 of these are already caused by tripping
over extension leads.

Do you have a source for these figures please?

Mostly, they come from the Regulatory Impact Assessment.
However, they are missing accidental deaths in the home due
to non-electrical fires, which I added in as it's quite
significant compared with the other figures. I found those
on one of the government websites (Home Office IIRC). If there
are other causes of accidental deaths in the home which neither
the RIA or I have not thought of, they are missing too.

See my original response to the consultation:
http://www.cucumber.demon.co.uk/buildregs.pdf

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Andrew Gabriel