Death Due to Work-Related Injury
There are about 100 work-related fatal injuries in New Zealand every year.
- 94% of these deaths occur in men.
- The “agriculture, forestry and fishing” industry has the highest number of fatal work-related injuries (39 a year).
- 30% of all work-related fatal injuries are traffic related and happen while people are working or commuting.
Deaths from work-related injury are primarily due to:
- traffic accidents (31 deaths)
- machinery-related accidents (17)
- water transport accidents (10)
- being struck by falling objects (10)
- falls (7).