The latest top level statistics on work-related ill health, workplace fatalities and injuries, and enforcement in Great Britain.
Of the fifteen workplace fatalities that occurred between April 2010 and March 2011, nine were in agriculture.
Such an investigation is routine in a workplace fatality.
Rates of both are at historic lows; since 1933, unintentional workplace fatalities have fallen to about 4 per 100,000, from 37 per 100,000.
Data from 1994 in the U.S. reported that 94% of workplace fatalities occur to men.
Excluding homicide, workplace fatalities have fallen from 37 per 100,000 in 1933 to 18 in 1970 to roughly 4 today.
In other respects they fit well within the sudden and traumatic dimensions of workplace fatalities.
The Society's members create safer work environments by working to prevent workplace fatalities, injuries and illnesses.
In most countries males comprise the vast majority of workplace fatalities.
Now, we know that 97% of workplace fatalities and about 70% of serious workplace injuries happen to men.