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[null,"GOV-034789",null,"Description:"]
[null,null,null,"Forklift related injuries and fatalities between 1 January 2020 and 2 September 2024."]
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[null,null,null,"Response:"]
[null,null,null,"The data have been extracted based on the following criteria:"]
[null,null,null,"The claim accident / payment date is between 1 January 2020 and 2 September 2024."]
[null,null,null,"The claim cover decision is equal to 'Accept'."]
[null,null,null,"The external agency is equal to Vehicle - Forklift, or the accident description contains 'forklift'."]
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[null,null,null,"Caveats:"]
[null,null,null,"- A calendar year is 1 January to 31 December."]
[null,null,null,"- Accredited employer claims have been excluded."]
[null,null,null,"- 'New claims' have been counted by the date that the accident occurred. Claim may be lodged immediately after the injury occurred or at any later stage."]
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[null,null,null,"- 'Active claims' are claims that generated a payment in the relevant calendar years. These claims were not necessarily lodged, or had the accident occur, in the same calendar year."]
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[null,null,null,"- Costs provided are exclusive of GST."]
[null,null,null,"- Costs are based on payment date. Payment date may be different to the date of service."]
[null,null,null,"- Costs do not include Public Health Acute Services (PHAS) payments. Treatment for covered claims in public hospitals is provided by an annual service agreement between ACC and the Ministry of Health, and is funded by bulk payments from ACC to the Crown."]
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[null,null,null,"- The calendar year in which the service was paid may differ to the calendar year in which the service was provided."]
[null,null,null,"- A claim can cover multiple calendar years. In table 1, a claim which lasts longer than one year is counted as 'active' once for each calendar year covered. For example, a claim which lasted from 2020 to 2024 would be counted a total of three times, once for each calendar year."]
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[null,null,null,"- The accident description is a non-mandatory free text field on the ACC45 form. The nature and quality of responses varies. These data should therefore be considered indicative, but not a definitive count of claims."]
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[null,null,null,"- Serious injury is an internal claims classification used for identifying and managing claimants who are likely to have complex and long-term injury related needs. These include moderate to severe traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord injuries and comparable injuries (e.g. multiple amputations, severe burns and blindness). This flag is often only applied once other rehabilitation options have been provided so there can be a delay of months between claim lodgement and the flag being added."]
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[null,null,null,"- ACC is unable to provide comprehensive fatality statistics as data is collected on the basis of claims made. Our data may not represent the total number of fatalities related to accidents for the following reasons: "]
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[null,null,null,"'1. Many people are unaware they can make a claim related to an accidental death of a family member. Therefore, ACC only ever receives claims for a subset of accidental deaths. "]
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[null,null,null,"2. If a person who has an open claim with ACC dies of their injuries, or other causes, ACC is not necessarily notified of this."]
[null,null,null,"- For more accurate fatality data, we suggest you contact the Ministry of Health Mortality Collection (MORT), which classifies the underlying cause of death for all deaths registered in New Zealand.  MORT uses a range of sources (Police, funeral director, coroner, hospital records) to validate data reliability."]
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[null,null,null,"- More information on MORT is available on\nwww.health.govt.nz/nz-health-statistics/national-collectionsand-surveys/collections/mortality-collection\nor by contacting data-enquiries@moh.govt.nz."]
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[null,null,null,"Data were extracted on 2 September 2024 and may differ if rerun at a later date."]

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[null,"Table. Number of new claims, number of active claims, and active claim costs (excluding GST) for forklift related injuries between 1 January 2020 and 2 September 2024."]
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[null,"Calendar Year","New Claims","Active Claims","Total Costs"]
[null,2020,1103,1462,7242408.1500000004]
[null,2021,1292,1630,7800822.1399999997]
[null,2022,1280,1694,9164601.4900000002]
[null,2023,1216,1724,10470769.66]
[null,"2024 (YTD)",758,1272,7529375.0300000003]