Employment: Death
(asked on 20th January 2023) - View Source
Question to the Department for Work and Pensions:
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many fatalities have occurred in the workplace by sex in each of the last five years for which data is available.
As the regulator for workplace health and safety, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) collects information on fatal injuries resulting from work-related accidents.
Statistics of work-related fatal injuries by sex are published by HSE on HSE’s website. Published statistics for work-related fatal injuries by sex for 2017/18 to 2021/22 are as follows:
Number of fatal injuries to workers | |||
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Year | All | Male | Female |
2017/18 | 141 | 135 | 6 |
2018/19 | 149 | 142 | 7 |
2019/20 | 113 | 110 | 3 |
2020/21 (revised) | 145 | 141 | 4 |
2021/22 (provisional) | 123 | 116 | 7 |
Source: Work-related fatal injuries in Great Britain reportable under the Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrence Regulations (RIDDOR).