The HSE has a special HSE webpage devoted to information on agriculture related fatalities.

38 people died in agricultural accidents during 2002 , according to provisional figures released on 1st July 2003 by the Health and Safety Executive. This was the lowest figure in over a decade. It compared with 41 in the previous year, 53 in the year before that and 44 three years earlier. The self employed accounted for 20 cases out of the total. There were 15 employee deaths and three people, including one child, were members of the public. In the previous year 39 of the 41 deaths involved people at work. 20 were employees and 19 were self-employed. The deaths included two children and ten people over normal retirement age.

The total number of workplace fatalities for all industries during 2006/7 was 241. In agriculture there were 34 workplace deaths, the same as 2005/6 and equivalent to 8.1 deaths per 100,000 workers. This is more than double the 3.7 deaths per 100,000 workers in construction and almost eight times the 1.1 deaths per 100,000 workers in manufacturing. On these statistics, agriculture remains the most dangerous civilian occupation (see Statistics: Work-related injuries and ill health in agriculture - HSE website).

Health and Safety Executive figures show that in the 10 year-period between 1997/98 to 2006/07 there were 399 fatal accidents involving farm workers and 134 of these fatal incidents occurred during the harvest months of August, September and October (see 2008/08/08 - HSE's safety warning to farmers during the harvest season).