HSE Workplace Fatality Figures 2023/24
The Health & Safety Executive’s (HSE) annual workplace fatalities statistics for 2023/24.
The data, covering the period from April 2023 to March 2024, reveals that 138 workers lost their lives in work-related incidents, an increase of 15 compared to 2021/22.
Cause of fatal injuries
- Falls from height (50)
- Struck by a moving vehicle (25)
- Struck by a moving object (20)
- Trapped by something collapsing/overturning (15)
- Contact with moving machinery (8)
Fatal injuries by industry
- Construction (51)
- Agriculture, forestry and fishing (23)
- Manufacturing (16)
- Admin and support services transport and storage (12)
- Transportation and storage (11)
The risks to older workers (aged 60 or over) continue to be highlighted with 34% of the total fatal injuries, despite only making up around 11% of the workforce.
87 members of the public were killed due to work-related activities (excludes deaths due to work-related accidents to ‘patients and service users’ in the healthcare and adult social care sectors in England reportable under RIDDOR).
“The rise in work-related fatalities, as reported by the Health and Safety Executive, serves as a stark reminder that we cannot become complacent about the health and safety of workers. Put simply, the consequences of poor health and safety are too great a price to pay.”
– Dr Julie Riggs, Director of Education and Membership, British Safety Council
