FOI request (FOIR-715251924)

Incidents in Cemeteries

Requested Fri 16 May 2025
Responded Wed 28 May 2025

I would like to make a Freedom Of Information request regarding reports of incidents, accidents and fatalities involving sharp/irregular edges or protrusions on headstones, memorials or monuments in U.K. cemeteries over the last thirty years. I wish to specifically exclude incidents, accidents and fatalities relating to fallen or falling headstones, memorials or monuments – it is only sharp/irregular edges or protrusions I am concerned about.

If information is known:

1. Please provide the cause, if known, of each accident or fatality.

2. Please provide any details of the sharp/irregular edges or protrusions of the memorials concerned in each incident, accident, or fatality.

3. Please provide the approximate locality of each incident, accident, or fatality.

4. Please provide, in the case of incidents and accidents, their severity and whether hospitalisation was required.

5. Please provide the ages of each incident or accident victim.

Please provide the above information preferably in Excel, PDF, or Microsoft compatible format.

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