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<p>The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) publishes official statistics on work-related
fatal injuries at <a href="https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/fatals.htm" target="_blank">https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/fatals.htm</a>.
Data specifically for work-related fatal injuries by accident kind is reproduced in
the table below.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Table 1:</strong> Number of work-related fatal
injuries to workers (employees and self-employed) in Great Britain by kind of accident,
2021/22</p><p> </p><p><strong><em>Source: </em></strong><em>Reporting of Injuries,
Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulations (RIDDOR)</em></p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Accident
kind</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Number of fatal injuries</strong> <strong> to
workers</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>All accident kinds</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>123</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Falls
from a height</p></td><td><p>29</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Struck by moving vehicle</p></td><td><p>23</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Struck
by moving, including flying/falling, object</p></td><td><p>18</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Contact
with moving machinery</p></td><td><p>15</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Trapped by something
collapsing/overturning</p></td><td><p>14</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Contact with electricity
or electrical discharge</p></td><td><p>9</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Drowning or asphyxiation</p></td><td><p>4</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Strike
against something fixed or stationary</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Exposure
to fire</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Slips, trips or falls on same level</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Exposure
to, or contact with, a harmful substance</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Exposure
to an explosion</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Injured by an animal</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Acts
of violence</p></td><td><p>1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Other kind of accident</p></td><td><p>2</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>Figures for 2021/22 are at this stage provisional. They will be finalised in
July 2023 following any necessary adjustments.</p>
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