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No of Workplace Fatalities and Rates, 2019 onwards

Last updated: 12 Jun 2025, 12:25 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)
  • Data contains no. and rates of workplace related fatalities, classified by Industry. From 2019 onwards.
  • In the industry column, the ones with "-" refers to industry and sub-industry.
  • The breakdown of industries and sub-industries only shows the ones with high number of cases, in line with MOM's published Workplace Safety and Health report, hence may not sum up to the total industries or "All Industries" in industry column.

Sample OpenAPI query

This code can be used to test a sample API query. It retrieves the data catalogue of this dataset. For a complete guide on query parameters and syntax, please refer to the API documentation

import requests
          
dataset_id = "d_8db54245f90c0fb13b3c761c9b64c2b9"
url = "https://api-open.data.gov.sg/v1/public/api/datasets/" + dataset_id + "/poll-download"
        
response = requests.get(url)
json_data = response.json()
if json_data['code'] != 0:
    print(json_data['errMsg'])
    exit(1)

url = json_data['data']['url']
response = requests.get(url)
print(response.text)

Citation

This dataset can be reused and cited in research publications.

Ministry of Manpower. (2023). No of Workplace Fatalities and Rates, 2019 onwards (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved September 17, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_8db54245f90c0fb13b3c761c9b64c2b9/view

About this dataset

Contact

siti_syabanun_abdullah@mom.gov.sgsiti_zubaidah_juraimi@mom.gov.sg

Created on

31 Oct 2023

Licence

Free forever for personal or commercial use, under the Open Data Licence.

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)