Workplace injuries by local authority

The 20 highest injury rates

Ranked by the average of HSE's annual rate over 2022/23 to 2024/25, to smooth the year-to-year swings that affect small areas. The 2024/25 count and rate are shown alongside.

Injuries

Non-fatal injuries to employees that employers reported to HSE under RIDDOR in the year to 31 March 2025.

Rate

Those injuries per 100,000 employees working in the area, so a small area with a big workforce can be compared with a large one. HSE calculates it; n/a means the workforce estimate was too small to be reliable.

3-year rate

The average of the annual rates for 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25. The ranking uses this, because a single year swings a lot in small areas.

Read the top of this table with care. North Warwickshire is a small district with very large distribution and logistics parks, so a modest number of injuries produces a high rate. HSE says differences between areas are strongly affected by the industries based there, and that the employment estimates behind small-area rates are less reliable than those for regions.

The 20 lowest injury rates

The lowest rates cluster in London boroughs and commuter towns where office work dominates. The City of London reported 207 injuries in 2024/25 across a workforce of hundreds of thousands.

By region and nation

Regions have large enough workforces for the rates to be reliable. In 2024/25 the spread was from 158 per 100,000 in London to 254 in the North East and Wales.

The last column is the Labour Force Survey estimate for 2022/23 - 2024/25, which counts every injury a worker says they had at work, whether or not the employer reported it. It is per 100,000 workers, not employees, and comes with wide confidence intervals for the smaller regions, so treat regional differences in that column as indicative.

Fatal injuries by region

Deaths run a year ahead of the rest of this page: HSE publishes fatal injuries each July, so these figures cover 2025/26, provisional until July 2027. Deaths at work are rare enough that a single year at regional level is noisy, so the table also gives the five-year total and HSE's rate over that period.

Scotland and Wales have higher five-year fatal rates than their non-fatal rates would suggest, because the industries with the highest fatal rates, agriculture, forestry, fishing and waste, are concentrated there. Scotland's 2025/26 count of 10 is well below its five-year average, which shows how much a single year can move.

Authorities with the most deaths at work

Worker deaths counted from HSE's case listing of every RIDDOR fatality, 2021/22 to 2025/26. Large rural authorities lead because farming and forestry have by far the highest fatal injury rates of any industry.

By county

HSE publishes county-level figures for the English shire and metropolitan counties and for inner and outer London. 2024/25 only.

Ten-year trend by region

Reported non-fatal injury rate per 100,000 employees, 2014/15 to 2024/25. Every region has fallen. The 2020/21 and 2021/22 figures are affected by the pandemic and by furlough, which kept people in the employment count while they were not at work, so the dip in those years overstates the improvement.

How to read the numbers

• What is counted. Non-fatal injuries to employees reported by employers under RIDDOR: specified injuries (fractures, amputations, loss of sight and the rest of the list in the regulations) and injuries that kept someone off work for more than seven days. Injuries to the self-employed are excluded because reporting is too patchy. Fatal injuries cover employees and the self-employed. Rail, offshore and nuclear sites are excluded.
• Where it is counted. By the location of the incident, not where the worker lives. An authority with big employment sites and few residents can show a high rate.
• Under-reporting. HSE estimates around half of reportable non-fatal injuries are reported. Reporting levels differ between areas and industries, so some of the difference between two authorities is a difference in reporting, not in injuries.
• Rates. Injuries divided by employment from the Annual Population Survey, times 100,000. HSE notes the survey's sample has shrunk, which makes small-area rates less certain. It publishes no rate where the sample is too small.
• Our ranking. We rank by the mean of the three latest annual rates. HSE publishes single-year rates; the averaging is ours, to reduce the year-to-year swings that HSE warns about at this level. The single-year figures are in the table and the CSV.
• Two releases. Non-fatal figures are from the November 2025 annual release and cover 2024/25, provisional until November 2026. Deaths are from the July 2026 fatal injuries release and cover 2025/26, provisional until July 2027. Authority-level deaths are our tally of HSE's case listing, which records the local authority where each incident happened. This page is rebuilt after each release.

What this means for an employer

Your council area's rate says more about the industries around you than about your own risk. What moves your own figure is the assessment and control work inside your workplace: the risk assessment for each task, the COSHH assessment for each hazardous substance, and the reporting habit that gets every RIDDOR incident logged. If you have not written those down yet, start with the free COSHH assessment generator, which cites the regulation on every page.

Cite this report

"Workplace injuries by local authority, 2024/25 data", Safety Papers, September 2026, https://www.safetypapers.com/reports/workplace-injuries-by-local-authority/. Underlying data: HSE, RIDREG and LFSINJREG tables, published 20 November 2025, and RIDFATAL and the RIDDOR fatalities case listing, published 30 June 2026. Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0.