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SOLDIERS are to get a safety warning about the dangers of falling out of bunk beds.

A health and safety briefing complete with slide show will show them how to avoid tumbling from the top bunk.

The lecture comes after a woman fell 6ft and broke foot bones when she woke and rolled out of a Ministry of Defence bed — forgetting she was in the upper one.

Critics of the growing health and safety culture yesterday described it as “absurd”.

Ben Harris-Quinney, chairman of Tory think tank the Bow Group, said: “It’s an insult to the intelligence of service personnel, who presumably know how to work a bunk bed.”

The bunk fall is one of a host of bizarre accidents recorded by MoD health and safety officers.

Two recruits broke their jaws in training when they dived on the floor and smashed their faces on their rifle butts.

Another employee got whiplash while taking part in a fight while wearing a sumo wrestler suit.

A parachutist broke a wrist after crashing down on to a burger van.

One employee pulled a muscle in her back when she swung a rubbish bag into a waste bin and another staff member knocked themselves out walking into a window.

The MoD paid out £45million in compensation last year to service personnel and £13.5million to civilian staff.