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Ten Victorian Tradies Injured Every Day

Ten tradies are injured badly enough every day to make a compensation claim, according to statistics released today by WorkSafe.

In the past five years, more than 17,000 injury claims from the construction industry were reported to WorkSafe, costing almost $1 billion in treatment, wages and other expenses.

Tradies and labourers made up almost 80 per cent of those injured workers. Tragically, two construction workers lost their lives last year.

WorkSafe Chief Executive Denise Cosgrove said while the construction industry understood the importance of safety, more needed to be done.

“Inspectors visit almost 40 construction sites across Victoria every day and, on average, they find almost 6500 health and safety breaches every year. And that’s just not acceptable,” she said.

“The number of deaths, injuries and safety breaches prove that everyone – builders, contractors and workers – must do more to make sure workers get home to their families safely every night.”

Ms Cosgrove said the majority of construction site injuries were caused by inadequate planning, poor site housekeeping and a lack of supervision.

“The injuries caused on sites are not always life threatening, but are often painful, costly and result in long periods off work,” she said.

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