The HSE has issued statistics covering fatal injuries arising from accidents at work in Great Britain 2017.
The report provides headline numbers on workplace fatal injuries that were reported to enforcing authorities in 2016/17. It includes both fatal injuries to workers and to members of the public. The 2016/17 figures are currently provisional.
Headline figures
Worker fatalities
Accident types
In terms of the rate of fatal injury per 100,000 workers, the statistics show that a long term downward trend seen over the past 30 years or so has plateaued, with these latest figures suggesting signs of the rate of fatal injury to workers levelling off.
Fatal injuries to members of the public
A total of 92 members of the public were killed in 2016/17 as a result of a work-connected accident. Of these deaths, almost half (43) occurred on railways and a further 14 occurred in the health and social work sector.
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Question, what were the causes of death for the missing 25.547% (35 workers), my interest would be factoring this in to future risk assessments if not having already done so.