— Twenty-eighth to Thirty-second Column (28-32): 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 non-occupational accidents (fatal) per year [whole number field]

’Non-occupational accident' refers to a discrete occurrence during non-professional use, which leads to physical or mental harm caused by the machinery or related product used as intended, including any reasonably foreseeable misuse. ’Fatal accident' refers to a non-occupational accident caused by the machinery or related product used as intended, including any reasonably foreseeable misuse, which leads to the death of a victim within 1 year of the non-occupational accident. 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); 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. The greyed cells cover categories of machinery or related products for which non-professional uses are not found. Therefore, they should not be filled in. Other than those, 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. For an accident to be reported under a category of machinery or related product, it is necessary that 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.

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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.