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The latest Health & Safety Executive (HSE) statistics, released in October, show that across all UK industries 229 workers were killed at work in 2007/2008. The average figure for the past five years is 230 deaths per year, so there is no statistically significant drop in that period, although the longer-term trend is downwards.
This national workplace fatality rate equates to 0.8 deaths per 100,000 workers per year and the construction and agriculture sectors account for nearly half the deaths, with 72 and 39 respectively. It is difficult to extract haulage figures from the statistics because they are included in the broader 'services' sector, which had 74 fatalities in 2007/2008. However, the HSE's leaflet on safety in road haulage says that in the last five years there have been nearly 60 deaths and 5,000 serious injuries in haulage and distribution simply from people doing their job.
The latest annual figures for the transport sector for non-fatal reportable injuries put it in third position, again behind construction and agriculture although while construction has more fatalities, agriculture has more accidents. The average number of such injuries reported to the HSE in the last three years is 1,350 In transport, against 1,550 in construction and 2,240 in agriculture. As in previous years, more than one third of the injuries were caused by slipping or tripping.