Workplace death and injury data

Workers killed and injured at work in Great Britain: the HSE figures

The Health and Safety Executive recorded 126 workers killed in work-related accidents in Great Britain in 2025/26 (provisional), and 104 members of the public. Over the five years from 2021/22, 651 workers were killed, 184 of them in falls from a height. Employers reported 59,219 non-fatal injuries to employees in 2024/25, 8,853 of them in manufacturing, and HSE estimates that around half of such injuries are reported. These are HSE’s own figures, in its own categories.

By kind of accident By industry Injuries in manufacturing Sources and method

Source: Health and Safety Executive, RIDDOR tables RIDFATAL (published 1 July 2026), RIDKIND, RIDKIND-MANF and RIDIND (published 20 November 2025). Figures derived 30 October 2026.

RIDFATAL, published 1 July 2026

Four figures from HSE’s tables

126

workers killed in work-related accidents in Great Britain in 2025/26 (provisional), a rate of 0.37 per 100,000 workers. 128 in 2024/25 (revised), and 651 in the five years from 2021/22.

workers killed in falls from a height in 2025/26, the most common kind of fatal accident that year. Over the five years, falls from a height account for 184 of the 651 deaths, 28%.

40 of 126

workers killed in 2025/26 were aged 60 or over. For workers aged 65 and over the rate was 1.62 per 100,000, 4.4 times the rate for all ages.

104

members of the public killed in work-related accidents in 2025/26: people who were not at work themselves. 447 in the five years, added together here.

Five years

Workers killed each year

Each year runs from April to March. The rate is per 100,000 workers, which HSE says is the better measure of change over time, because it allows for the number of people in work. The 2025/26 row is provisional and the 2024/25 row revised.

Workers killed in work-related accidents, Great Britain, 2021/22 to 2025/26 (provisional). Source: Health and Safety Executive, RIDFATAL Table 1.

Year	Workers killed	Employees	Self-employed	Rate per 100,000 workers
2021/22	123	83	40	0.38
2022/23	136	92	44	0.41
2023/24	138	88	50	0.42
2024/25 (revised)	128	79	49	0.38
2025/26 (provisional)	126	86	40	0.37
Five years, 2021/22 to 2025/26	651	428	223	0.39

The number of workers killed was between 123 and 138 in each of the five years, and the rate between 0.37 and 0.42 per 100,000 workers. On counts this size HSE asks for care in reading a trend from one year to the next.

By kind of accident

How workers were killed, in HSE’s sixteen kinds of accident

HSE classifies each death by the kind of accident. These are its sixteen kinds, in its words, ranked by deaths over the five years, because, as HSE’s own report on them says, the number of deaths of some kinds in one year is small and varies a lot. Each row has its own address: /workplace-deaths-injuries/#kind-falls-from-a-height is falls from a height.

Workers killed by kind of accident, Great Britain, 2025/26 (provisional) and the five years 2021/22 to 2025/26. Source: Health and Safety Executive, RIDFATAL Table 3.

Kind of accident	Workers killed, 2025/26 (provisional)	Employees	Self-employed	Workers killed, five years	Share of five-year deaths
Falls from a height	31	20	11	184	28%
Struck by moving vehicle	24	18	6	110	17%
Struck by moving, including flying/falling, object	21	16	5	108	17%
Trapped by something collapsing/overturning	18	15	3	75	12%
Contact with moving machinery	10	8	2	52	8%
Contact with electricity or electrical discharge	5	2	3	29	4%
Strike against something fixed or stationary	1	0	1	18	3%
Other kind of accident	3	0	3	18	3%
Injured by an animal	2	0	2	14	2%
Drowning or asphyxiation	2	0	2	13	2%
Slips, trips or falls on same level	4	4	0	9	1%
Acts of violence	2	2	0	6	1%
Exposure to, or contact with, a harmful substance	2	1	1	5	1%
Exposure to an explosion	1	0	1	5	1%
Exposure to fire	0	0	0	4	1%
Injured while handling, lifting or carrying	0	0	0	1	0%

The all-kinds total is the year row in the table above. Shares are worked out here from HSE’s counts and are rounded, so they need not add to a hundred.

Workers killed over the five years by kind of accident: the five largest kinds, and the rest added together. The figures are in the table above.

Falls from a height account for 184 of the 651 deaths over the five years, 28%, and 31 in 2025/26. The five largest kinds (falls from a height; struck by moving vehicle; struck by moving, including flying/falling, object; trapped by something collapsing/overturning; contact with moving machinery) account for 529 of the 651, 81%. Of the 184 killed in falls from a height, 87 were self-employed.

By industry

Workers killed in each industry, with HSE’s rate

By main industry, in HSE’s groups of the Standard Industrial Classification. Two rows are part of the row above them, marked “of which”. The rate per 100,000 workers is the figure to compare, because the industries employ very different numbers of people.

Workers killed by main industry, Great Britain, 2025/26 (provisional) and the five years 2021/22 to 2025/26, with HSE’s rate per 100,000 workers. Source: Health and Safety Executive, RIDFATAL Table 1.

Main industry, as HSE names it	Workers killed, 2025/26 (provisional)	Rate per 100,000, 2025/26	Workers killed, five years	Rate per 100,000, five years
Agriculture, forestry and fishing (SIC A)	22	8.09	113	8.08
Mining and quarrying (SIC B)	2	1.86	7	1.23
Manufacturing (SIC C)	18	0.70	82	0.63
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply (SIC D)	1	0.54	4	0.44
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities (SIC E)	6	2.37	24	1.96
Of which: waste collection, treatment and disposal activities; materials recovery (SIC 38)	6	5.47	23	4.03
Construction (SIC F)	25	1.23	186	1.78
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles; accommodation and food service activities (SIC G,I)	11	0.21	61	0.23
Transportation and storage (SIC H)	15	0.94	73	0.94
Information and communication; financial and insurance activities; real estate activities; professional, scientific and technical activities; administrative and support service activities (SIC J-N)	12	0.15	61	0.16
Of which: Administrative and support service activities (SIC N)	9	0.60	53	0.72
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security; education; human health and social work activities (SIC O-Q)	7	0.06	18	0.03
Arts, entertainment and recreation; other service activities; activities of households as employers; undifferentiated good-and-services-producing activities of households for own use; activities of extraterritorial organsiations and bodies (SIC R-U)	6	0.28	21	0.21
Missing Industry	1	n/a	1	n/a

HSE gives no rate where there is no employment estimate to divide by, shown as n/a. The rows add up to the year totals above, leaving out the two “of which” rows.

Construction had the most deaths over the five years, 186, at a rate of 1.78 per 100,000 workers. The highest rate is in agriculture, forestry and fishing, 8.08 over five years, followed by waste and recycling at 4.03; the rate across all industries is 0.39. Manufacturing recorded 18 deaths in 2025/26 and 82 over the five years, a five-year rate of 0.63.

By age

The rate rises with age

The rate per 100,000 workers in each age band, as HSE gives it, beside the count. Each row has its own address: /workplace-deaths-injuries/#age-65-and-over is workers aged 65 and over.

Workers killed by age, Great Britain, 2025/26 (provisional) and the five years 2021/22 to 2025/26, with HSE’s rate per 100,000 workers. Source: Health and Safety Executive, RIDFATAL Table 4.

Age	Killed, 2025/26	Rate, 2025/26	Killed, five years	Rate, five years
Under 16	0	0.00	0	0.00
16 to 19	2	0.22	15	0.32
20 to 24	7	0.26	32	0.24
25 to 34	20	0.26	78	0.21
35 to 44	21	0.28	112	0.30
45 to 54	18	0.24	115	0.31
55 to 59	17	0.51	90	0.54
60 to 64	14	0.57	79	0.68
65 and over	26	1.62	117	1.65
Unknown	1	n/a	13	n/a

Rates are per 100,000 workers in the age band. “Unknown” has no rate.

40 of the 126 workers killed in 2025/26 were aged 60 or over, and 196 of the 651 over the five years. The rate rises with age: 0.57 per 100,000 for workers aged 60 to 64 in 2025/26, and 1.62 for those aged 65 and over, 4.4 times the rate for all ages of 0.37. Over five years the rate for workers aged 65 and over is 1.65, against 0.39.

Employees and the self-employed

The self-employed are killed at a higher rate

HSE counts employees and the self-employed separately, each with its own rate per 100,000.

Workers killed by employment status, Great Britain, 2025/26 (provisional) and the five years 2021/22 to 2025/26, with HSE’s rate per 100,000. Source: Health and Safety Executive, RIDFATAL Table 1, all industries.

Employment status	Killed, 2025/26	Rate, 2025/26	Killed, five years	Rate, five years
Employees	86	0.30	428	0.30
Self-employed	40	0.80	223	0.93
All workers	126	0.37	651	0.39

Rates are per 100,000 employees, self-employed people or workers.

Over the five years, 223 of the 651 workers killed were self-employed, 34%. Their rate was 0.93 per 100,000, against 0.30 for employees: 3.1 times as high. In 2025/26 the rates were 0.80 and 0.30.

Members of the public

People killed by work activity who were not at work

A member of the public, in HSE’s note, is a death “as a result of a work-related accident, though the injured person was 'not at work' themselves”. Table 2 gives each year; the five-year column is the five added together here.

Members of the public killed in work-related accidents by main industry, Great Britain, 2021/22 to 2025/26 (provisional). Source: Health and Safety Executive, RIDFATAL Table 2.

Main industry, as HSE names it	2021/22	2022/23	2023/24	2024/25 (revised)	2025/26 (provisional)	Five years, added
All industries	88	73	86	96	104	447
Agriculture, forestry and fishing (SIC A)	3	7	4	4	7	25
Mining and quarrying (SIC B)	0	0	0	0	0	0
Manufacturing (SIC C)	0	0	1	0	0	1
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply (SIC D)	0	0	0	0	0	0
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities (SIC E)	4	0	1	3	3	11
Of which: waste collection, treatment and disposal activities; materials recovery (SIC 38)	3	0	1	3	3	10
Construction (SIC F)	6	2	3	4	3	18
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles; accommodation and food service activities (SIC G,I)	11	11	10	7	9	48
Transportation and storage (SIC H)	24	19	20	30	32	125
Information and communication; financial and insurance activities; real estate activities; professional, scientific and technical activities; administrative and support service activities (SIC J-N)	5	1	6	1	4	17
Of which: Administrative and support service activities (SIC N)	1	1	2	1	4	9
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security; education; human health and social work activities (SIC O-Q)	24	18	30	41	29	142
Arts, entertainment and recreation; other service activities; activities of households as employers; undifferentiated good-and-services-producing activities of households for own use; activities of extraterritorial organsiations and bodies (SIC R-U)	11	15	11	6	17	60

104 members of the public were killed in 2025/26, and 447 over the five years. The largest groups in 2025/26 were transportation and storage, 32, which includes deaths on the railways, and public administration, education, health and social work, 29, which excludes patients and service users in care premises in England registered with the Care Quality Commission. Manufacturing recorded one in the five years.

Non-fatal injuries, 2024/25 (provisional)

Injuries reported in manufacturing, by kind of accident

What employers reported for employees in 2024/25 (provisional), by kind of accident, for manufacturing beside all industries. RIDDOR has two categories of reportable non-fatal injury: “specified (a pre-defined list of injuries which was revised from the previous ‘major’ category in October 2013); and over-7-day absence”. This is the November 2025 edition, a year behind the deaths above.

Non-fatal injuries to employees reported under RIDDOR by kind of accident, Great Britain, 2024/25 (provisional), manufacturing and all industries. Source: Health and Safety Executive, RIDKIND-MANF Table 2 and RIDKIND Table 2.

Kind of accident	Manufacturing: all reported	Specified	Over-7-day	Share in manufacturing	All industries: all reported	Share in all industries
Slips, trips or falls on same level	2,083	876	1,207	24%	18,051	30%
Injured while handling, lifting or carrying	1,773	175	1,598	20%	10,012	17%
Struck by moving, including flying/falling, object	1,185	342	843	13%	6,054	10%
Contact with moving machinery	1,107	302	805	13%	2,088	4%
Other kind of accident	1,060	160	900	12%	7,155	12%
Falls from a height	663	339	324	7%	4,684	8%
Strike against something fixed or stationary	448	99	349	5%	2,189	4%
Struck by moving vehicle	215	102	113	2%	1,264	2%
Exposure to, or contact with, a harmful substance	171	14	157	2%	564	1%
Trapped by something collapsing/overturning	42	23	19	0%	202	0%
Exposure to fire	33	11	22	0%	119	0%
Contact with electricity or electrical discharge	33	7	26	0%	150	0%
Exposure to an explosion	13	5	8	0%	36	0%
Injured by an animal	13	4	9	0%	738	1%
Acts of violence	13	4	9	0%	5,900	10%
Drowning or asphyxiation	1	0	1	0%	13	0%
All accident kinds	8,853	2,463	6,390	100%	59,219	100%

Employees only: HSE does not publish non-fatal counts for the self-employed. Shares are worked out here from HSE’s counts and rounded.

Employers in manufacturing reported 8,853 non-fatal injuries to employees in 2024/25: 2,463 specified and 6,390 over-7-day. The four most common kinds were slips, trips or falls on same level, 2,083; injured while handling, lifting or carrying, 1,773; struck by moving, including flying/falling, object, 1,185; contact with moving machinery, 1,107. Contact with moving machinery is 13% of the injuries reported in manufacturing and 4% across all industries. Over the five years from 2020/21, manufacturing reported 48,871.

The rate is not a like-for-like comparison. HSE’s rate of reported non-fatal injury in 2024/25 was 363 per 100,000 employees in manufacturing and 209 across all industries (RIDIND Table 3). HSE warns that a comparison between industries has to allow for different levels of reporting in each, and that around half of such injuries are reported at all.

Caveats

How to read these figures

Great Britain. Every table here is for Great Britain, as HSE titles them: England, Scotland and Wales. Northern Ireland is not in them.
The 2025/26 figures are provisional. In HSE’s words, they “will be finalised in July 2027 following any necessary adjustments”. The 2024/25 figures have been revised: “The number of deaths in 2024/25 increased by 8 (4 workers and 4 members of the public) between the provisional and revised count.”
Two editions, a year apart. The deaths come from RIDFATAL, published on 1 July 2026, which HSE describes as “an interim table showing the number of fatal injuries in 2025/26”. The non-fatal injuries come from the full suite of tables published on 20 November 2025, which runs to 2024/25 (provisional): “They will be finalised in 2026 following any necessary adjustments.” HSE says “The full suite of RIDDOR tables will be updated in November.” This page is refreshed when it is.
Small numbers move a lot. HSE warns that “The number of fatal injuries for some groupings are relatively small and are susceptible to considerable year-on-year variation so figures presented in the table need to be interpreted with care, particularly with respect to trends over time.” That is why the page gives the five-year figure beside each year, and ranks the kinds of accident by five years, not one.
Compare rates, not counts. “In order to make comparisons between groups it is important to consider the rate of fatal injury.” HSE’s rate is the count “multiplied by a factor of 100,000 to give a rate per 100,000 workers”, after dividing by the employment estimate from the Annual Population Survey. The rates are HSE’s, as printed. Where the page says one rate is a number of times another, that is worked out here from HSE’s rounded rates.
Non-fatal injuries are under-reported, and HSE says by how much. “It is known that non-fatal injuries are substantially under-reported for all workers but particularly for the self-employed.” For that reason the tables count employees only, and “it is currently estimated that around half of all such injuries are reported.” HSE adds that comparisons between industries “need to take account of the possibility of there being markedly different reporting levels in the subsets being compared.” Its preferred measure of the scale of non-fatal injury is the Labour Force Survey, which this page does not use.
A kind of accident is HSE’s classification, not a cause. The tables name each kind and give no further definition. Nothing on this page says what caused an accident.
Who is counted. “Workers include both employees and self-employed.” A member of the public is a death “as a result of a work-related accident, though the injured person was 'not at work' themselves”, and the figures exclude “deaths to 'patients and service users' arising from a work-related activity in England in health and social care premises registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC)”. Transportation and storage includes deaths on the railways, for workers and for members of the public, for which the Office of Rail and Road is the main enforcing authority. HSE’s note to agriculture, forestry and fishing reads “Excludes sea fishing”.
Injuries, not ill health. These tables count injuries in accidents reportable under RIDDOR. HSE publishes work-related ill health in other tables on the same index, and none of it is counted here.
The years are financial years. “Years run from 1 April to 31 March”, in HSE’s words. It notes that “Numbers for 2021/22 are affected by the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.” And from 2024/25, the non-fatal data, in its words, “excludes non-fatal injuries to employees in workplaces enforced by the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR)”.
No one is named, and no contractor is counted. HSE also publishes a case listing of fatal injuries. This page does not use it and names no person, employer or incident. None of the tables records whether the person killed or hurt was a contractor or a visitor on someone else’s site, so nothing here counts them.

The record

After an accident: who was on site

HSE’s tables record the kind of accident, the industry and the age and employment status of the person killed or hurt. After an accident at work an inspector can ask to see records, and on a site with visitors and contractors one of the first questions is who was there. The page on what an HSE inspector can ask to see sets that out. Noon Elite makes a sign in kiosk that keeps that record: who came onto the site and when, which site rules they accepted, and who was still signed in. It does not prevent an accident, it is not a RIDDOR report, and it does not make a site compliant with anything. The contractor sign in page says what it does and does not do.

Sources and method

Where each figure comes from

RIDFATAL: Work-related fatal injuries reportable under RIDDORHealth and Safety Executive, published 1 July 2026. Tables 1 (by main industry), 2 (members of the public), 3 (by kind of accident) and 4 (by age), 2021/22 to 2025/26 (provisional). Every death on this page.
RIDKIND: Work-related injuries reported under RIDDOR by kind of accident and broad industry groupHealth and Safety Executive, published 20 November 2025. Table 2, non-fatal injuries to employees by kind of accident, all industries, 2024/25 (provisional).
RIDKIND-MANF: Work-related injuries in manufacturing industry reported under RIDDOR by detailed industry and kind of accidentHealth and Safety Executive, published 20 November 2025. Table 2, non-fatal injuries to employees in manufacturing by kind of accident, 2024/25 (provisional), and the five-year total from 2020/21 to 2024/25.
RIDIND: Work-related injuries reported under RIDDOR by detailed industryHealth and Safety Executive, published 20 November 2025. Table 3, for the rate of non-fatal injury per 100,000 employees, and as a check on the totals.
Work-related fatal injuries in Great BritainThe Health and Safety Executive’s own summary of the 2025/26 figures, from the same table.
Kind of accident statistics in Great Britain, 2025Health and Safety Executive, published 20 November 2025. HSE’s report on the kinds of accident, with its reasons for using five years.
Reporting accidents and incidents at work (INDG453)The Health and Safety Executive’s brief guide to RIDDOR: what is reportable, including the list of specified injuries.
HSE statistics: index of tablesWhere every table above is listed, with the date it was last updated.

Derived on 30 October 2026 from HSE’s four workbooks, each checked on that day to be identical, byte for byte, to the file HSE serves at the address above. Every count is a cell in HSE’s tables, with no reclassification.

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