Injury Statistics – Work-related Claims: 2008

• Provisionally, there were 224,900 claims for work-related injuries that occurred in 2008.
• Final figures for 2002–07 show that the number of claims increased slightly each year from 240,100 in 2002 to 246,800 in 2005. The number of claims has decreased both years since then to 235,000 in 2007.
• In 2008, the provisional incidence rate was 117 work-related injury claims per 1,000 full-time equivalent employees (FTEs).
• The final incidence rate has decreased each year from 143 in 2002 to 123 in 2007.
• Provisionally in 2008, around 13 percent of claims (30,100) resulted in entitlement payments. (The remainder resulted in the payment of medical fees only.)

Note: The 2008 figures are provisional.