Preliminary fatalities - 2025

The latest estimate of workers killed as a result of injuries in Australian workplaces, drawn from initial media reports.

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⚠️ Data Dashboard Update 

Please note that the final update for 2025 preliminary data in this dashboard will be on Friday 12 December 2025. The first preliminary update in 2026 will be on Friday 30 January 2026.

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The preliminary fatalities dashboard shows the latest estimate of the number of workers killed in Australian workplaces this year, excluding deaths resulting from diseases, natural causes and suicides. Preliminary data often comes from initial media reports and is usually less than the number of finalised fatalities.

Click the ‘Pages’ button to switch between Industry of Workplace and Mechanism of Incident.

Find out more about the data on the Work-related fatalities data page or view detailed data for past years including trends and demographics on the Work-related fatalities dashboard.

Note: The interactive dashboards employ suppression techniques for small and/or unreliable results and estimates. This may cause some data to not be published in the charts.