— Eighteenth to Twenty-second Column (18-22): Article 6(5)(d) of the Regulation: data on accidents or damage to health caused by the machinery or related product for the preceding years (Y-2 to Y-6)/ Number of accidents at work (serious) per year [whole number field]

‘Accident at work’ refers to a discrete occurrence in the course of work which leads to physical or mental harm caused by the machinery or related product used as intended, including any reasonably foreseeable misuse. ‘Serious accident’ refers to an accident (not fatal) caused by the machinery or related product used as intended, including any reasonably foreseeable misuse, which leads to the permanent damage of a victim, or to significant bodily damage such as amputation of a body part. For each category of machinery or related product, the number of occurrences in a given year should be indicated. Data sources can be all or any of the following: European Injury Database (EU-IDB); Eurostat’s European Statistics on Accidents at Work (ESAW); the Machinery Administrative Cooperation Group (AdCo); other relevant sources. This field includes all types of injuries, such as: wounds and superficial injuries; dislocations, sprains and strains; concussions and internal injuries, bone fractures, poisonings and infections; shocks; burns, scalds and frostbites; amputations (loss of body parts); effects of sound, vibration and pressure; effects of extremes temperatures, light and radiation; drownings and asphyxiations; multiple injuries; psychological injuries. No cells should be left empty. When the number of occurrences in a given year is indicated to be zero, it should be clarified in column thirty-eighth whether there is a lack of data or there are no occurrences. Accidents should be reported in the eighteenth to twenty-second column and in relation to the category description (first to fourth column) when: such machinery or related product is the ‘Material Agent’ associated to: the ‘Specific Physical Activity' (that is to say: the tool, object, or instrument being used by the victim when the accident happened, just before the accident); or the “Deviation” (that is to say, where the circumstances of the accident differed from normal practice and the machinery or related product was the tool, object, or instrument involved in the abnormal event); or the “Contact - Mode of Injury” (that is to say, where the machinery or related product was the tool, object, or instrument which caused the victim a physical or psychological injury; and such accident is imputable to the machinery or related product, used as intended, including any reasonably foreseeable misuse, as long as such reasonably foreseeable misuse does not involve the elimination of safety measures foreseen by the manufacturer, such as the removal of protective guards; an accident may be imputable to the machinery or related product if any of the following occurs: it is caused by the design or construction of the machinery or related product, irrespectively of whether the machinery or related product is compliant with relevant harmonised standards or whether such harmonised standards present or not shortcomings as regards their ability to confer presumption of conformity with the EU legislation on machinery applicable when the machinery or related product was placed on the EU market; it is caused by operator’s errors, if such errors are reasonably foreseeable or aggravated by poor ergonomics; it is caused by poor maintenance resulting from maintenance instructions which were inaccurate or incomplete. “Material Agent”: It is defined in the newest edition of the EUROSTAT document “European statistics on accidents at work (ESAW) — Summary Methodology” as published on the Eurostat website. The current version of this document is the “2013 edition” (5). The Table in Annex B to this document lists the codes following the ESAW classification of Material Agents, under which certain categories of machinery or related products in scope of Annex I to the Regulation could be found, at the moment of writing this guidance. The codes listed in Annex B to this document have an indicative role and should be used if extended national data collected in the framework of ESAW is used as data source and the ESAW material agent description corresponds exactly to the data reported in the relevant row of the template. The codes may also be used for the purposes of facilitating the understanding of and/or searching in the relevant data bases for the categories of machinery or related products that are currently listed in Annex I to the Regulation. It should be noted that the 8-digit classification of the ESAW variable “material agent” is currently not used in the ESAW database (only the 4-digit classification is used). Although there are no 8-digit codes in the ESAW database, these 8-digit codes can be used to understand better what should be included in the related 4-digit codes. In any case, data and information provided in the Template should relate precisely to the category of machinery or related product, as described in the third or fourth column of the Template.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-07 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.