New stats show 10 construction workers have been killed at work this year.

It leaves the construction industry once more among the workplaces in Australia with the highest number of deaths.

The industry recorded a total of 29 deaths in 2014, 12 more than the number recorded in the previous year.

From 2003 to 2013 - 401 workers in the construction industry died at work.

This is an average of 36 workers per year, or about 15 per cent of all worker fatalities.

All but four of these workers were men.

Nearly half (46 per cent) of the construction worker fatalities involved technicians and trade workers.

This was followed by labourers at 28 per cent, and then machinery operators and drivers (21 per cent).

Just 22 fatalities over those 11 years did not involve workers in these three occupations

The Australian Work Health and Safety Strategy 2012–2022 says construction is a priority industry due to the high number and rate of injuries, illnesses and inherent risks.

The Strategy set out targets to cut the rate of serious injury by at least 30 percent by 2022.

It also seeks to reduce the number of work-related fatalities by at least 20 percent.