2024 commercial construction statistics

Occupations

Top three occupations with Total injuries Total Percentage
Trades helpers and labourers 184 29.87%
Other construction trades 74 12.01%
Metal forming, shaping and erecting trades 70 11.36%
Top three occupations with Time Loss injury and fatality Total Percentage
Trades helpers and labourers 47 28.48%
Other construction trades 28 16.97%
Masonry and plastering trades 18 10.91%

Causes

Top five causes for injury Claims total Percentage
Contact with objects and equipment 286 46.43%
Bodily reaction and exertion 195 31.66%
Falls 103 16.72%
Exposure to harmful substances or environments 19 3.08%
Transportation accidents 10 1.62%
Top five causes for Time Loss injury and fatality Claims total Percentage
Bodily reaction and exertion 59 35.76%
Contact with objects and equipment 53 32.12%
Falls 44 26.67%
Transportation accidents 5 3.03%
Assaults, violent acts, attacks, harassment 2 1.21%
Exposure to harmful substances or environments 2 1.21%

Body parts

Top three injured body parts Claims total Percentage
Hand 150 24.35%
Leg 112 18.18%
Back 82 13.31%
Top three body parts with Time Loss injury and fatality Claims total Percentage
Leg 35 21.21%
Hand 28 16.97%
Back 26 15.76%

Most common causes Claim per cent Comment
Contact with objects and equipment is the most common cause of injury. 47.55% of these injuries are to hand. The most common of these injuries are due to struck by swinging or slipping object such as cutting hand tools – non-powered.
Contact with objects and equipment is the most common cause of injury. 12.24% of these injuries are to head. The most common of these injuries are due to struck by swinging or slipping object such as wood, lumber.
Contact with objects and equipment is the most common cause of injury. 11.89% of these injuries are to eye. The most common of these injuries are due to struck by flying object such as chips, particles, splinters.
Bodily reaction and exertion is the other major cause of injury. 34.36% of these injuries are to back. The most common of these injuries are due to overexertion in lifting such as boxes, crates, cartons, other building materials – solid elements, other machinery, other tools, instruments and equipment, uns., wood, lumber.
Bodily reaction and exertion is the other major cause of injury. 26.15% of these injuries are to leg. The most common of these injuries are due to slip, trip, twisting, stepped on or in, loss of balance – without fall such as bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker.
Bodily reaction and exertion is the other major cause of injury. 14.87% of these injuries are to arm. The most common of these injuries are due to bending, climbing, crawling, reaching, twisting such as bodily motion or position of injured, ill worker.

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