The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) have released the latest fatal injury statistics, from April 2025 to March 2026.

Apart from the years affected by the coronavirus pandemic, the number of worker deaths in 2025 to 2026 is provisionally the lowest number recorded in a single year, which is good news. 

This industry-wide figure includes 25 fatal injuries to workers in the construction industry, a decrease of 10 from the previous year total (35) but the 5-year average for worker fatal injuries in construction is still high at 37, and the construction industry still remains the most dangerous industry in this country.

The most common causes of fatal injuries across all industries are:

• falls from height (31)
• being struck by a moving vehicle (24)
• being struck by a moving object (21)

Over the long-term, the rate of fatal injury to workers showed a downward trend, though the rate of decline has slowed in recent years, highlighting the need that everyone must continue to place their part to manage the risk to workers.

Within Transport and Logistics, we’ve seen 15 deaths, and 24 deaths by moving vehicles, which includes some MHE (manual handling equipment), such as forklift trucks.

Shockingly, 104 members of the public were also killed in work-related accidents in 2025/26.

Are you confident your staff or members of the public would be safe at your site?  If you have high risk activities being carried out at your site, or you’re the one being asked to carry them out, then make sure everyone has had adequate training, so they have the necessary skills to minimum harm to workers and the public.

We offer a wide range of courses to help you meet your HSE requirements, and together we can ensure these statistics continue to fall.  For more information about these courses, please click here.

As the mother of an 18-year-old apprentice who died whilst on a construction site in 2023 said “We urge employers to look beyond compliance and truly consider the responsibility they hold for the lives in their care. Safety must be meaningful in practice, ensuring risks are properly managed, and that everyone who goes to work returns home.”