2019-20 Work health and safety statistics - Health and community services

Key injury claims information

This infographic shows there were a total of 2194 workers' compensation claims in the Northern Territory for the year 2019-20. 12.1% of those claims were in Health and community services and 35.1% of those industry claims were for serious injuries.

This infographic shows total Health and community services claims resulted in 874 total lost time in weeks and $4,159,414 was paid in benefits.

  • Claims where the worker needed at least one week off due to their injuries are considered serious injuries.

Injury claims by worker age and gender

The image shows two bar graphs detailing injury claims by age and gender. In the age graph, 6% of injuries occured in workers under 25, and 31.3% of injured workers in that age bracket were seriously injured. 23.8% of injuries occured in the 25 to 34 age bracket, and 42.9% of injured workers in that age bracket were seriously injured. 19.6% of injuries occured in the 35 to 44 age bracket, and 32.7% of injured workers in that age bracket were seriously injured. 23.4% of injuries occured in the 45 to 54 age bracket, and 35.5% of injured workers in that age bracket were seriously injured. 22.3% of injuries occured in the 55 to 64 age bracket, and 28.8% of injured workers in that age bracket were seriously injured. 4.9% of injuries occured in the 65+ age bracket, and 38.5% of injured workers in that age bracket were seriously injured. In the gender graph, 19.2% of injured workers were male, 33.3% seriously injured, and 80.8% of injured workers were female, with 35.5% serious injured.

Main three occupations seriously injured

This infographic shows the main occupations by serious injury claims. 21.5% of all Health and Community Services serious injury claims were made by a registered nurse; 11.8% by a Special Care Worker; and 10.8% by Welfare and Community Worker.This infographic shows 20.9% of the health and community services injury claims were by Registered Nurses, 18.6% by Welfare and Community Workers and 10.7% of injury claims by Children's Care Workers.

Main three industry sub-groups by serious injury

This infographic shows 44.1% of the health and community services injury claims were in Hospitals, 15.1% in Non-residential Care Services and 7.5% in community health centres, as well as Nursing Homes (also 7.5%)

Main three mechanisms of serious injury

This infographic shows the main three mechanisms of injury for health and community services claims were 33.5% body stressing; 27% being hit by moving object; and 23.3% falls, trips and slips of a person.

  • Over 30% of all body stressing, and being hit by moving objects injury claims were for serious injuries.
  • Almost 50% of all falls, trips and slips of a person injury claims were for serious injuries.

Break down by main mechanisms of serious injury

  • The main two injury groups resulting from body stressing were:

    77.8% traumatic joint/ligament and muscle/tendon injury; 22.2% musculoskeletal and connective tissue injury.

    The two main incident types were:

    • Muscular stress while handling objects other than lifting, carrying or putting down (44.4%)
    • Muscular stress while lifting, carrying, or putting down objects (44.4%)

    Main body areas injured were:

    • Lower back (40.7%)
    • Knee (11.1%)

    The infographic shows the lower back and knees were the main body areas injured.

  • The main three injury groups resulting from falls, trips and slips of a person were:

    79.2% traumatic joint/ligament and muscle/tendon injury; 12.5% fractures; 8.3% wounds, lacerations, amputations and internal organ damage.

    The main incident type was:

    • Falls on the Same Level (91.7%)

    Main body areas injured were:

    • Ankle (25%)
    • Lower back (12.5%)

    The infographic shows the ankle and lower back were the main body areas injured.

  • The main two injury groups resulting from being it by moving objects were:

    40% wounds, lacerations, amputations and internal organ damage; 35% traumatic joint/ligament and muscle/tendon injury; and 20% fractures.

    The three main incident types were:

    • Being assaulted by a person or persons (45%)
    • Being hit by falling objects (15%)
    • Being bitten by an animal (also 15%)

    Main body areas injured were:

    • Thumb (20%)
    • Hand (10%)
    • Wrist (10%)
    • Fingers (10%)

    The infographic shows that the thumb, hand, wrist and fingers were the main body areas injured.

Previously published infographics

The above information provides additional details to the Health and Community Services infographics published in October 2020. The serious injury specific infographics for Health and Community Services for 2019-20 is still available here (pdf 192.9 KB).

 

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Document type:
Statistics
Topics:
Corporate
Last updated:
13 October 2022

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