SHOCKFACTS: Workplace deaths

Wednesday, November 17, 1993 - 11:00

  • More than 2000 Australians die annually due to workplace accidents and disease.

  • Each day, 50 young workers suffer work-related injuries, five of them leading to permanent incapacity.

  • A worker is injured seriously enough to lodge a workers' compensation claim every 2.4 minutes.

  • Workers in the construction industry are more than twice as likely to be killed at work than those in other industries.

[Source: <http://www.nohsc.gov.au>. Got a shockfact? Send it to <glw@greenleft.org.au>.]

From Green Left Weekly, September 22, 2004.

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From GLW issue 599