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Newshound
12-14-2012, 11:28 AM
The Work-related Traumatic Injury Fatalities, Australia 2010–11 report found that 374 people died from a work-related traumatic injury in 2010–11. Of these 220 workers (59 percent) died from injuries incurred at work; 110 workers (29 percent) died from an incident while travelling to or from work and 44 people (12 percent) died as a bystander to someone else’s work activity.

Safe Work Australia Chair, Tom Phillips AM emphasised that while it was encouraging to see worker fatalities decrease, employers and workers should continue to remain vigilant of work health and safety issues.

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