Fatalities and Serious Occupational Injuries and Illnesses
Our goal is to avoid all work-related injuries and illnesses and we have programmes in place aimed at achieving this goal. However, in 2003 there were five work-related fatalities among GlaxoSmithKline employees. Four died as a result of motor vehicle accidents, one in Pakistan, one in Morocco, one in Egypt and one in the Czech Republic. One employee from a facility in the United Kingdom died of mesothelioma from asbestos exposure in the 1950s which was diagnosed and reported in 2002. There were also several fatalities involving people who were not employees. One contract worker died in a forklift truck accident and motor vehicle accidents killed two pedestrians and one passenger. One 2002 fatality was discovered in 2003. This was a fatality in Japan that was originally judged to be non-work related but after investigation by the local authority, the designation was changed to work-related status.
There were four severe injuries, one involving chemical burns, two involving finger tip amputations by machinery and one involving amputation of an arm that was run over by a truck in a motor vehicle accident. |
