Work-related traumatic injury fatalities database

Safe Work Australia is proud to announce the beta release of our new data website, data.safeworkaustralia.gov.au.

The new website delivers national work health and safety and workers’ compensation data in an intuitive, user-friendly way.

Please visit the website and fill out the short online questionnaire. Feedback can also be emailed to statsonline@swa.gov.au.

The database includes all people who died from injuries: 

  • at or from work 
  • in Australia or a territorial sea. 

Who’s included in the database 

The database includes: 

  • unpaid volunteers and family workers, carrying out work experience 
  • defence force personnel killed within Australian territories or territorial sea or travelling for work. 
  • bystanders (people who died from someone else’s work activity). 

It doesn’t include people who died from: 

  • medical intervention (iatrogenic injuries) 
  • natural causes, such as heart attacks and strokes, except where a work-related injury was the direct cause of the heart attack or stroke 
  • diseases 
  • self-inflicted injuries (suicide). 

Using the work-related traumatic injury fatalities database 

You can see the number of fatalities and fatality rate by sex, age, industry, job and cause in the reports: 

We may make minor changes each year if we get more information.  

The 2020 statistics should be considered in the broader context of the COVID-19 pandemic when comparing data over previous periods. The potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on this data are explored in the COVID-19 and Safe Work Australia data report.

The Work-related fatalities full time series (2003 to 2021) has electronic tables by industry, job, main cause and demographics.

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