The UK’s most dangerous places to work

Tyne and Wear, County Durham and Northumberland are the three most dangerous North East regions to work in, according to the Health and Safety Executive statistics.

As for North East towns and cities, two of the region's largest - Sunderland and Newcastle upon Tyne - were found to be the most dangerous to work in, with Stockton-on-Tees third.

In England's North West, the large, vastly-populated regions of Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Lancashire are the most dangerous to work in. In fact, they are amongst the most dangerous in England, outside of London.

Similar to the North East, the North West's most dangerous towns and cities to work in are amongst the region's largest and busiest. Liverpool and Manchester are - perhaps unsurprisingly - the top two, Warrington being the third.

According to the Health and Safety Executive's research, Yorkshire & the Humber is one of the most dangerous parts of the UK to work in, with at least one fatal workplace injury recorded in all but eight of its 24 regions. 

Overall, the West, South and North Yorkshire regions were found to be the most dangerous.

By overall number of workplace injuries, Leeds - despite no fatal injuries occurring - was found to be Yorkshire's most dangerous city or town to work in, followed by Bradford and Wakefield, which both recorded two cases of fatal incidents in the workplace.

Workplace injuries are fairly consistent across the East Midlands' largest regions, with a relatively small difference (152) between the number of injuries reported in Lincolnshire,  the area's most dangerous region, and Derbyshire, the third most dangerous. 

Additionally, Leicestershire - the East Midlands' fourth most dangerous region - reported only 3 less workplace injuries (741 overall) than Derbyshire.

Narrowed down to individual towns and cities, the data for the East Midlands reports that the region's three largest cities make up the top three of its most dangerous to work in, with Nottingham heading Leicester and Derby in the list.

Covering a large section of the overall West Midlands area, the West Midlands metropolitan county - which is home to large cities such as Birmingham, Coventry and Wolverhampton - is the most dangerous place in England to work outside of London, with two fatal and almost 2800 non-fatal injuries reported.

As the West Midlands largest, busiest and most populated city, it is probably little surprise that Birmingham tops the table for the most workplace injuries by city/town in the region, with over 700 more non-fatal injuries reported here than second-placed Coventry.

While Essex is clear as the East of England's most dangerous region to work in, with 241 more non-fatal injuries reported than second placed Hertfordshire, there is little between the injury rates of the other eastern regions. 

Third placed Norfolk is closely followed by Suffolk (3 fatal and 824 non-fatal injuries), with Cambridgeshire also reporting 2 fatal and 736 non-fatal workplace injuries.

Whilst Essex tops the East of England's most dangerous regions list, Chelmsford is the county's only city to make the top three of the east's most dangerous towns or cities, with Cambridgeshire-based Peterborough and Bedford - Bedfordshire's second-largest settlement - taking the top and second-place spots.

London is, without doubt, one of the most dangerous places to work in the UK. The Health and Safety Executive's data shows that the region, which is home to England's capital city of course, has seen a large number of non-fatal workplace injuries recorded in recent years. In fact, when combined, the figures for Outer and Inner London totals 6,746 injuries. 

In addition, there have been 15 fatal injuries recorded in London; 8 in Outer London, 7 in Inner London.

The Health and Data Executive reports at least 100 non-fatal workplace accidents in all but three of London's boroughs, with only Kingston upon Thames, Harrow and Richmond upon Thames recording less than that figure. 

Considered the most dangerous boroughs to work in are Westminster, with 2 fatal and 543 non-fatal injuries recorded respectively, Hillingdon and Hounslow, as listed below.

In the South East of England, Kent is - based on the Health and Safety Executive's data - considerably more dangerous to work in than other regions in the area, with 6 fatal and 1402 non-fatal injuries - 617 more than third-placed Surrey - recorded. 

Making up the top-three is Hampshire, a region home to two of the top three most dangerous South East towns and cities to work in - Southampton and Portsmouth.

Atop the list of the South East's most dangerous towns and cities, heading Southampton and Portsmouth, is Milton Keynes, with 325 non-fatal workplace injuries recorded.

While the South West of England has, overall, recorded less non-fatal workplace injuries than many other areas of the UK, it is still considered one of the most dangerous places to work in the UK due to the higher rate of fatal workplace injuries. 

Devon alone accounts for 11 of the area's fatal incidents, whilst also recording almost 800 non-fatal injuries.

Bristol, which tops the list of the South West's most dangerous places to work, has a higher-than-average number of non-fatal workplace injuries recorded, compared to other cities across the UK. 

The city is also the only one of the South West's top-three (listed below) to have reported any fatal workplace injuries, though other cities and towns in the region - such as Exeter - have also recorded fatal incidents.

In Wales we see a direct correlation between the overall size and population of the top three most dangerous towns and cities and the number of workplace injuries recorded in them. 

Cardiff, Wales' largest and capital city, tops the list, heading Swansea - the second-placed second city - and Newport, the country's third largest city.

Scotland's two largest cities are where most of the country's workplace incidents and injuries occur - perhaps unsurprising considering their size, population and important role in Scottish industry. 

First placed Glasgow is almost 400 non-fatal injuries ahead of third-ranked Fife, though Fife did record 3 fatal workplace injuries compared to Glasgow and Edinburgh's zero.