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Workplace Fatalities Stats by Accident Type & Industry

Last updated: 12 Jun 2025, 12:24 SGT

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)
  • Data contains numbers of yearly fatalities (2019 onwards), by accident type and industry(SSIC 2015v2018).
  • From 2022 onwards, Accident types are classified by Type A/B.
  • Type A refers to Incident type which poses higher fatality risk.
  • Type B refers to Incident type which poses lower fatality risk.

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_96415fe7d30b8f82f3628602f627a4fa"
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). Workplace Fatalities Stats by Accident Type & Industry (2025) [Dataset]. data.gov.sg. Retrieved July 9, 2025 from https://data.gov.sg/datasets/d_96415fe7d30b8f82f3628602f627a4fa/view

About this dataset

Contact

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

Created on

26 Oct 2023

Licence

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

Agency

MOM (Ministry of Manpower)