Four industries accounted for eight out of every ten notified work-related fatalities:

1. Construction (24 per cent)

2. Transport and storage (23 per cent)

3. Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing (18 per cent)

4. Manufacturing (13 per cent).

The most common causes of fatalities were:

1. Vehicle accidents (44 fatalities)

2. Being hit by falling objects (23 fatalities)

3. Being hit by moving objects (21 fatalities)

4. Falls from a height (16 fatalities)

5. Being trapped by moving machinery (12 fatalities).

Construction workplaces recorded a consistently high number of notified worker fatalities over the period 2003-04 to 2006-07 (ranging from 18 in 2004-05 to 36 in 2007-08).

There was a notable decrease in the number of notified worker fatalities in agriculture, forestry and fishery workplaces (42 fatalities in 2003-04 to 25 in 2007-08).

There was a notable decrease in the number of notified worker fatalities in mining workplaces (4 fatalities in 2007-08 compared with 13 fatalities in 2006-07).