Workplace Fatalities in Great Britain 2020/21
Every year the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) releases Great Britain workplace fatalities figures. As leaders in the health and safety sector, we know how important these figures are to a wide variety of industries and wanted to highlight the key numbers. The statistics highlighted below are based on provisional annual data for the period of April 2020 to March 2021 and provides early insight into workplace deaths – and how they occur. A full report of work-related ill health and injuries is also released by the HSE every year and is due in December 2021.
142 Workers Killed
35
Leading cause was falls from height
Other causes of fatal accidents:
25
Struck by a moving vehicle
17
Struck by a moving object
14
Trapped by something collapsing / overturning
14
Contact with moving machinery
39
Most deaths occurred in the Construction industry
Deaths in other industry sectors
The South West had the highest number of fatal injuries in any region
23
