Three people died in workplace accidents in the Bradford district in a 12- month period.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) statistics also show there were 24 major work-based accidents in 2011-12.

The figures – revealed to the Telegraph & Argus through the Freedom of Information Act – also record that the HSE investigated 30 accidents at work.

Mohammed Nasir Hussain was one of those who died. The 36-year-old was killed in an incident involving a carding machine at Felt Supplies, a textiles firm on the Wharfedale Business Park, Dudley Hill, on February 1.

The HSE would not reveal the names of the other two people who died, but a spokesman said they were both men and both died after falling from height in separate incidents.

One worked for a roofing company and the other was self-employed.

Of the 30 workplace accidents investigated by HSE in 2011-12, the majority, 12, were falls from height.

Six were caused by machinery, one was related to drowning or asphyxiation, two were electric shocks, another two were caused by exposure to a harmful substance, four were from being struck by an object, two involved a moving vehicle, and one involved someone being trapped by something collapsing.

The T&A also obtained figures for the same period in 2010-11. In that time there were no deaths at work reported in the Bradford district, but there were nine major injuries, and 11 accidents investigated in total.

From April to the end of November this year there have been no fatalities at work, five major injuries, and eight accidents investigated.

Meanwhile, employers are being urged to focus on real risk after five workers lost their lives and more than 900 suffered a major injury while at work in West Yorkshire last year.

The HSE has asked business to rethink workplace safety provisions in the New Year after the number of deaths in Great Britain as a whole failed to show a significant fall in 2011-12. David Snowball, HSE director for Scotland and Northern England, said: “Each year, instead of enjoying the occasion, families of workers in West Yorkshire who failed to come home from work safely spend Christmas and the New Year thinking of absent loved ones.

“Hundreds of other workers who have had their lives changed forever by major injury will be experiencing difficulties of their own. My New Year wish is that we can reduce the number of deaths and major injury in 2013 and make the year ahead a happier one for many families.”