Key facts about the workforce
This industry grouping covers a wide range of activities, separated into 14 groups. The three largest employing groups are:
- Rail freight transport
- Postal and courier pick-up and delivery services
- Road passenger transport
Key facts about injury numbers
There were 394 injuries across the industry in 2024.
265 of these are classified as serious, after resulting in at least one week of time off work.
This results in a serious injury frequency rate of 16.0 serious injuries per million hours worked.
The serious injury frequency rate of 16.0 is 42% higher than the state average of 11.2.
The industry’s serious injury frequency rate was 26% higher in 2024 than ten years ago.
There have been 26 work related deaths in the last ten years, 16 of these workers and 10 were bystanders.
Key facts about injured workers
Water passage transport reported the highest serious injury frequency rate at 73.1.
The occupations with the highest proportion of serious injuries were:
- Miscellaneous Labourers with 24% of the total and
- Truck Drivers with 22% of the total
Key facts about injury causes
The most common causes of injury across the industry in 2024, in order of largest proportion of total injuries, were:
- Body stressing
- Falls, slips and trips
- Vehicle incidents and other