The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published its annual on work-related fatal injury statistics. In the period April 2024 to March 2025, there were a total of 124 worker deaths, down 14 from the previous year. The most common causes of work-related fatal injury were fall from height, being struck by a moving object and being trapped by something collapsing or overturning, accounting for 60% of all fatal injuries. Construction, agriculture, forestry and fishing accounted for the highest number of deaths across all industries.
Comparatively, nonfatal injuries differ markedly to fatal injuries. Falling from height, as the most common fatal injury, only accounted for 8% of nonfatal injuries. Slips, trips or falls on the same level, and injury while handling, lifting or carrying, accounted for almost half of all employer-reported nonfatal injuries, yet the same two accident types only accounted for 1% of fatal injuries to workers.