Totally agree with points made Mike, if you can look at each near miss as an opportunity to improve (lead indicator) you can in effect alter the traditional triangle and reduce the chance of these near misses leading to a serious event. Interestingly the department we have on site with the most near misses is the safest! My experience is for caution with incident/accident figures and comparisons as such a wide variation between industries. Some benefit between very similar companies in same industry but taking my company as an example, we have a substantial 24/7 foundry using 100% recycled materials...other foundries but not much similar. I did get some bench marking data from the manufacturers association for our cnc operations but believe not repeated. I found ACC not very helpful since i believe individual case managers not now part of their systems.