Safe Work Australia has just released the latest data relating to workplace deaths.
The Work-related traumatic injury fatalities Australia 2017 report provides up-to-date national statistics on all workers and bystanders fatally injured at work.
Key findings include:
- The fatality rate has decreased by 48% since 2007 (from 3.0 fatalities per 100,000 workers in 2007 to 1.5 in 2017).
- 190 workers were fatally injured at work.
- 93% of fatalities were male (176).
- 71% of fatalities occurred in three industries: transport, postal and warehousing (28%); agriculture, foresting and fishing (27%); and construction (16%).
- The top three causes of worker fatalities were:
vehicle collision (32%)
; being hit by moving objects (18%); and
falls from a height (15%).
Read more on the website.
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