Employer Bulletin | 30 September 2024
- Sep 29, 2024
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Injury statistics for work-related claims give information about claims accepted by ACC for work-related injuries.
A total of 226,600 work-related injury claims were made in 2023 (up 1,200 from 2022).
The incidence rate for claims related to work-related injuries was 86 claims per 1,000 full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) in 2023. This is the lowest rate since the start of the series in 2002.
The manufacturing; agriculture, forestry, and fishing; and construction industries had the highest incidence rates of work-related injury claims in 2023.
Trades workers had the highest number of claims by occupation in 2023, with 39,000 claims.
This release contains provisional statistics for work-related claims for injuries in the 2023 calendar year. It also includes final statistics for work-related claims for injuries in the 2022 calendar year, which are updated from last year’s published 2022 provisional data.
In today's Bulletin:
Authority confirms contractor status
Employee justifiably dismissed for failing to follow training and policy
Employee recovers premiums paid for employment
Employee dismissed by text message
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