Accident Summaries

The Energy Safety summary of reported electrical and gas accidents contains brief descriptions of Energy Safety investigations into electrically-caused serious injuries (shock or burn) and significant property damage caused by fire. It also lists notifiable and significant non-notifiable gas accidents reported to Energy Safety during each calendar year.

In order to determine trends, notifiable electrical injury accidents and notifiable and non-notifiable gas accident information collected since 1993 has also been analysed.

These reports are available as Adobe Acrobat PDFs.

2008 Summary of Reported Electrical and Gas Accidents [ Published 19 May 2009 ]
Energy Safety Summary of Accidents in 2008.

2007 Summary of Reported Electrical and Gas Accidents [ Published 01 April 2008 ]
Energy Safety Summary of Accidents in 2007.

2006 Summary of Reported Electrical and Gas Accidents [ Published 02 April 2007 ]
Energy Safety Summary of Accidents in 2006.

2005 Summary of Reported Electrical and Gas Accidents [ Published 21 November 2006 ]
Energy Safety Service Summary of Accidents in 2005

2004 Summary of Reported Electrical and Gas Accidents [ Published 17 March 2006 ]
Energy Safety Service summary of accidents in 2004.

2003 Summary of Reported Electrical and Gas Accidents [ Published 24 February 2005 ]
Energy Safety Service summary of accidents in 2003.

2002 Summary of Reported Electrical and Gas Accidents [ Published 24 June 2004 ]
Energy Safety Service summary of accidents in 2002.

2001 Summary of Reported Electrical and Gas Accidents [ Published 19 December 2002 ]
Energy Safety Service summary of accidents in 2001.

1998-2000 Revised Summary of Reported Electrical and Gas Accidents [ Published 30 January 2002 ]
Energy Safety Service summary of accidents in 1998-2000.

The above documents can also be obtained in printed form from Energy Safety. Please contact us at info@energysafety.govt.nz if you would like to receive one.