Request ID: FOI-0918-2324 Date published: 26 July 2023
You asked
In your quarterly reports you publish the number of injuries from "slips, trips and falls" but do not declare where incidents are heat related (despite publishing data on alcohol/intoxication related incidents). If you are unwilling to share heat related incidents with the public could you (1) share the number of "slips, trips and falls" by month. It is important that the public gain some sort of insight to heat related incidents on the tube so anything you can share there?
Clarification received 08/07/2023: Lets try the last year broken down by month.
We answered
TfL Ref: FOI-0918-2324
Thank you for your request received by Transport for London (TfL) on 24th June 2023 asking for information about heat related trips, slips and falls on the London Underground.
Your request has been considered in accordance with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act and our information access policy.
Specifically you asked:
“In your quarterly reports you publish the number of injuries from "slips, trips and falls" but do not declare where incidents are heat related (despite publishing data on alcohol/intoxication related incidents). If you are unwilling to share heat related incidents with the public could you (1) share the number of "slips, trips and falls" by month. It is important that the public gain some sort of insight to heat related incidents on the tube so anything you can share there?”.
On 8th July 2023 you clarified that you wanted to see data for the last year, broken down by month. The number of slips, trips and falls on the London Underground for the last full calendar year are shown in the table below, broken down by month as requested:
Slips, Trips and Falls by Month and Injury Severity - 2022:
Year
Month
Killed or Seriously Injured
Minor Injuries
Total Injuries
2022
Jan
2
155
157
2022
Feb
3
178
181
2022
Mar
6
148
154
2022
Apr
9
142
151
2022
May
5
192
197
2022
Jun
7
191
198
2022
Jul
9
202
211
2022
Aug
4
181
185
2022
Sep
11
208
219
2022
Oct
10
163
173
2022
Nov
4
175
179
2022
Dec
10
228
238
Grand Total
80
2163
2243
Please note that the numbers provided are the most up-to-date numbers we have (as of 21st July 2023) and provide the latest picture of incidents reported. Therefore, they are not necessarily comparable to any numbers published previously in the Safety, Health and Environmental reports. In terms of heat-related incidents, I am afraid that there is no quick, efficient or automated way of determining this. In order to do that, we would have to manually review each of the 2,243 individual incident reports. This is not possible within the costs limit for responding to FOI cases, as set out under section 12 of the Freedom of Information Act. Under section 12, TfL is not required to provide information if it would cost more than £450 to determine if that information is held, and to then locate, retrieve or extract it from elsewhere. This is calculated at a rate of £25 per hour, equivalent to 18 hours work. Given the numbers involved, it is not possible to achieve such a manual review within the limit. In order to bring your request within the costs limit, you may wish to consider narrowing its scope.
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Yours sincerely,
David Wells FOI Case Officer FOI Case Management Team General Counsel Transport for London
