Safe Work Australia have released their Notifiable Fatalities June 2015 Monthly Report, revealing a total of 87 work-related deaths from January to June.
The report revealed there was 15 work-related notifiable fatalities during June, including 12 male workers, two male bystanders, and one female bystander.
Of these fatalities, three workers died as a result of an incident on a public road and one worker died in an air crash. Of the incidents, three each were due to vehicle accident and being hit by a falling object, two were the result of crushing. The remaining four fatalities were due to falling from height, an air crash, trapped in machinery and a pedestrian hit by a vehicle.
Six fatalities occurred in Transport, postal and warehousing workplaces, five in Agriculture, forestry and fishing workplaces and two in Construction workplaces.
Electricity, gas, water and waste services and Manufacturing workplaces had one fatality each.
There have been a total of 87 work-related deaths in Australia this year, including nine in construction and six in mining.
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