Defence health and safety statistics: index
Source: gov.uk (2025-11-06)

MOD figures for injury, illness and deaths of service personnel, civilian employees and other civilian personnel.

Upcoming release dates for this publication are available on gov.uk (https://www.gov.uk/search/research-and-statistics?keywords=safety&content_store_document_type=upcoming_statistics&organisations%5B%5D=ministry-of-defence&order=relevance).

Related information
- Statistics at MOD (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-defence/about/statistics)
- MOD statistics pre-release access list (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/defence-statistics-pre-release-access-list)
- MOD National and Official Statistics by topic (https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/mod-national-and-official-statistics-by-topic/mod-national-and-official-statistics-by-topic)
Defence personnel health and safety statistics: financial year 2023/24

For the production of the 2023/2024 financial year of Health and Safety data it will not be possible to present the numbers of injuries by the mechanism of injury (referred to as ‘type of event’). This is due to data quality issues within the collection of this data which would require the analytical team to manually review thousands of records in order to re-categorise the data into the reporting categories required. System developments implemented towards the end of financial year 23/24 should improve this issue going forward and we intend to reintroduce the mechanism of injury tables where possible for the Health and Safety report due to be published for financial year 24/25.

The following tables in the annex will be affected:
- Table A3.5 – UK Regular Armed Forces, Reported injury by type of activity and severity, numbers. Totals will be presented by activity and severity. Breakdown of mechanism for injuries sustained during ‘normal duties’ will be removed.
- Table A3.6 - UK Regular Armed Forces, Reported injury by activity and type of event, numbers. Totals will be presented by activity, breakdown of mechanism will be removed.
- Table A3.9: UK Reservist Armed Forces, Reported injury by type of activity and severity, numbers. Totals will be presented by activity and severity. Breakdown of mechanism for injuries sustained during ‘normal duties’ will be removed.
- Table A3.10: UK Reservist Armed Forces, Reported injury by type of event, numbers. Totals will be presented by activity, breakdown of mechanism will be removed.
- Table A3.13: MOD Civilians, Reported injury by type of event. Table removed as number of civilian injuries is presented in table A3.1 by severity.
- Table A3.14: Cadet Forces, Reported injury, by type of event. Table removed as number of cadet forces injuries is presented in table A3.1 by severity.
- Table A5: All personnel, Reported near misses by type of event and type of activity, number. Totals will be presented by activity, breakdown of mechanism will be removed.
- Table A6: All personnel, Reported dangerous occurrence by type of event and type of activity, number. Totals will be presented by activity, breakdown of mechanism will be removed.
The remaining 14 tables in the annex will be unaffected.

Bulletin:

Three bullet points on page 13 relating to mechanism of injury for injuries sustained on normal duties will be removed. The remainder of the bulletin is unaffected.