Work-related Traumatic Injury Fatalities

Safe Work Australia has just released their latest report on work-related deaths due to injury called Work-related Traumatic Injury Fatalities 2008-09. This report shows that there has been little change in the number of workers killed each with 286 workers killed in 2008-09, 100 of which were due to traffic incidents on public roads. In addition 117 workers died while travelling to or from work and 41 members of the general public were killed due to someone else's work activity. Truck drivers and workers on farms are the groups most at risk of being killed while working. The report said that 358 truck drivers have been killed while working over the six years until 30 June 2009. The report can be found at www.safeworkaustralia.gov.au