# Near miss: Workplace Incident Statistics

> The Workplace Incident Statistics carries 4 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 3.10 to 72 percent, read 12 October 2026.

Coshhvo · https://coshhvo.com/datasets/workplace-incident-statistics/ · computed 2026-10-18

**Range of the published figures:** 3.1 to 72 % (range 3.1 to 72 %; 4 sources with a figure; 4 of 12 sources read publish one).

4 of the 12 named sources read in full publish a figure; 8 publish none, read 12 October 2026.

## By measure

| Breakdown | Median | Range | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|
| measure employer-reported-cases | 3.1 % | 3.1 to 3.1 % | 1 |
| measure fatal-injuries | 4 % | 4 to 4 % | 1 |
| measure cost-share | 72 % | 72 to 72 % | 1 |
| measure days-away-share | 61.5 % | 61.5 to 61.5 % | 1 |

## Every figure, with its source

One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read.

| Source | Figure | Breakdown | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| [HSE, Costs to Britain of workplace injury and new cases of ill health](https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/cost.htm) | 72 % | cost-share | 2026-10-12 |
| [BLS, Employer-Reported Workplace Injuries and Illnesses, 2023-2024](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/osh.nr0.htm) | 61.5 % | days-away-share | 2026-10-12 |
| [BLS, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries Summary, 2024](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.nr0.htm) | 4 % | fatal-injuries | 2026-10-12 |
| [BLS, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) programme](https://www.bls.gov/iif/) | 3.1 % | employer-reported-cases | 2026-10-12 |

## The sentence each figure was read from (4)

- [HSE, Costs to Britain of workplace injury and new cases of ill health](https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/cost.htm), read 2026-10-12: "Ill health causes the biggest proportion of total costs at around 72% (£16.4 billion), with injury resulting in around 28% of total costs (£6.5 billion)."
- [BLS, Employer-Reported Workplace Injuries and Illnesses, 2023-2024](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/osh.nr0.htm), read 2026-10-12: "(DAFW) in private industry, representing 61.5 percent of the total cases involving days away from work, job restriction, or transfer (DART)."
- [BLS, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries Summary, 2024](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.nr0.htm), read 2026-10-12: "There were 5,070 fatal work injuries recorded in the United States in 2024, down 4.0 percent from 5,283 in"
- [BLS, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) programme](https://www.bls.gov/iif/), read 2026-10-12: "Employers report 2.5 million injury and illness cases in 2024, down 3.1% from 2023"

## Read in full, publishes no figure

- [HSE, Key figures for Great Britain 2024 to 2025](https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/overview.htm), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [HSE press release, annual workplace health and safety statistics (20 Nov 2025)](https://press.hse.gov.uk/2025/11/20/hse-publishes-annual-workplace-health-and-safety-statistics/), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [HSE, Non-fatal injuries at work in Great Britain](https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/causinj/overview.htm), read 2026-09-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- [HSE, Statistics - index of tables](https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/tables/index.htm), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [HSE, Fatal injuries](https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/fatals.htm), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [HSE, Health and safety statistics](https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [GOV.UK, Health and Safety statistics: 2024 to 2025 annual release](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/health-and-safety-statistics-2024-to-2025-annual-release), read 2026-10-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- [BLS, State Occupational Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities](https://www.bls.gov/iif/state-data.htm), read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page

## Methodology

Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 4 of the 12 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 8 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 27 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): one series per jurisdiction per measure - fatal injuries, RIDDOR-reported non-fatal injuries, self-reported injuries, work-related ill health, working days lost, cost - broken by industry and kind of accident, each year from the authority's own release; across them the two things the releases leave the reader to do: the REPORTING GAP (employer-reported RIDDOR injuries against the survey's self-reported count, the same year, the same population) and the GB-US comparison on a common per-100,000-workers basis, changed-since each annual release.

## Sources

- [HSE, Key figures for Great Britain 2024 to 2025](https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/overview.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [HSE press release, annual workplace health and safety statistics (20 Nov 2025)](https://press.hse.gov.uk/2025/11/20/hse-publishes-annual-workplace-health-and-safety-statistics/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [HSE, Non-fatal injuries at work in Great Britain](https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/causinj/overview.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [HSE, Costs to Britain of workplace injury and new cases of ill health](https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/cost.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [HSE, Statistics - index of tables](https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/tables/index.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [HSE, Fatal injuries](https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/fatals.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [HSE, Health and safety statistics](https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [GOV.UK, Health and Safety statistics: 2024 to 2025 annual release](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/health-and-safety-statistics-2024-to-2025-annual-release) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [BLS, Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries Summary, 2024](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cfoi.nr0.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [BLS, Employer-Reported Workplace Injuries and Illnesses, 2023-2024](https://www.bls.gov/news.release/osh.nr0.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [BLS, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) programme](https://www.bls.gov/iif/) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- [BLS, State Occupational Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities](https://www.bls.gov/iif/state-data.htm) (the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)

## Cite or embed

- The Workplace Incident Statistics carries 4 published figures read from 4 sources' own pages, from 3.10 to 72 percent, read 12 October 2026.
- 4 of the 12 named sources read in full publish a figure; 8 publish none, read 12 October 2026.
- Workplace Incident Statistics, measure employer-reported-cases: median 3.10 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- Workplace Incident Statistics, measure fatal-injuries: median 4 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- Workplace Incident Statistics, measure cost-share: median 72 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.
- Workplace Incident Statistics, measure days-away-share: median 61.50 percent across 1 source, read 12 October 2026.

Cite as: "Coshhvo Workplace Incident Statistics", updated 2026-10-18, https://coshhvo.com/datasets/workplace-incident-statistics/.

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