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The national fatality, claims and cost datasets read properly, with reference years named and every figure cited to its source.
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Self-rated good to excellent health among injured workers fell from 74.0 to 64.0 per cent across the strategy. The scorecard's own supplementary indicators put the same broad measure for employed Australians at 91 per cent in 2022, the same as 2017-18. A falling number with a flat control is a different thing from a falling number alone.
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From the ABS Work-Related Injury Survey, via the Year 6 scorecard: 45 per cent of injured workers who received compensation had more than 10 days off or had not returned in 2021-22, against 15 per cent of those who did not claim. The gap is widening, and selection explains most of why it exists at all.
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The 2025 National Return to Work Survey redesign added employers for the first time and removed the question asking injured workers whether returning to work had hindered their recovery. One headline indicator was discontinued and four more now carry comparability warnings, at the mid-point of a ten-year strategy.
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Years of life lost to occupational exposures fell 42 per cent per 1,000 workers between 2003 and 2024. Years lived with disability barely moved. By our arithmetic on Safe Work Australia’s figures, 88 per cent of the improvement in total burden came from the fatal side, and disability is now exactly double the years of life lost.
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The Year 6 scorecard included employer survey results for the first time in the strategy’s life, beside the worker answers to the same questions. On support after injury the two sides are 44 points apart, and nine of thirteen comparable measures have moved away from target.
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430 killed in ten years and a fatality rate fifteen times the national figure. But 63 per cent of the fatal vehicle incidents involved a single vehicle, and the next biggest killer is being struck by your own truck while loading or inspecting it. That moves the problem from other traffic to rosters, fatigue and how the task is set up.
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The new profile of 2.3 million sales and service workers: 46 per cent casual against 22, body stressing at 40.8 per cent of serious claims, and the costliest body stressing claims coming from repetitive light work rather than lifting. Underneath it, a claim-to-injury gap that says the claims file understates the harm in these industries, with the regulator’s own reasons why.
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The state publishes serious accident and high potential incident frequency rates for each individual mine and quarry, which almost no other regulator does. Across 1,637 site-years the median site works about 15,500 hours, so one serious accident becomes a rate of 65, against 0.23 for the same event at the largest site. Why the rate columns cannot be compared, and what we deliberately did not print.
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The most recent official mining death toll is 10, for the 2024 calendar year: the highest since 2015 and 39 per cent above the five-year average. There is no published count for 2026. The full ten-year series, pulled from the national workbook, and what each regulator does and does not publish.
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A drill rig boom into a light vehicle at an underground intersection, a dozer and a haul truck reversing toward each other in the dark, and a brake-unit fire underground. The week ending 17 July, 38 reportable incidents, and for the fifth week running the thread is mobile plant moving where no one meant it to.
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A conveyor rubbing to burning embers, a tyre fitter with a fractured spine, and a loader work platform that crowded down on its own and threw two workers to hospital. The week ending 10 July, and the thread running through a month of editions: control of moving plant and loads.
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An excavator that fell off its own undercarriage, a 1.5-metre rock that missed a cabin, and a haul truck that met a dozer on a dump. The week ending 3 July in the country's highest-cadence incident ledger, and the near-miss loop working in public.
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Safe Work Australia's cost-of-injury accounting stopped at 2012-13. The live numbers a board paper should carry instead, every one dated and sourced, and the 22 per cent of claims that drive 75 per cent of the payments.
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The largest injury mechanism in every major occupation group, the four risk factors the manual tasks code actually names, and why the claims total is over half musculoskeletal. A weight limit is not one of them.