CBC News Indepth: Workplace safety

INDEPTH: WORKPLACE SAFETY
Fatalities by province: 1993-2004
CBC News Online | April 22, 2006

NUMBER OF FATALITIES BY PROVINCE
Province	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998
NL	11	20	26	17	19	32
PEI	2	4	2	2	3	3
NS	40	22	20	23	20	13
NB	14	11	17	20	17	17
QC	134	130	148	95	202	208
ON	292	248	245	238	225	243
MB	25	20	22	27	21	22
SK	33	36	26	29	38	28
AB	77	74	93	91	120	105
BC	124	152	134	153	164	125
NT/NU	5	6	12	4	4	2
YT	1	2	3	4	n/a	n/a
Total	758	725	748	703	833	798

NUMBER OF FATALITIES BY PROVINCE
Province	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004
NL	27	38	26	23	23	23
PEI	3	0	5	1	-	1
NS	17	16	8	14	18	41
NB	20	7	15	17	7	12
QC	164	180	180	188	175	176
ON	283	301	328	383	378	365
MB	23	19	25	19	24	14
SK	34	31	35	23	35	30
AB	r 114	118	118	101	127	124
BC	147	157	168	158	170	136
NT/NU	2	13	11	6	5	5
YT	1	2	n/a	1	1	1
Total	835	882	919	934	963	928

r: Alberta number corrected from 2004 publication
n/a: Statistics unavailable
Source: Association of Workers' Compensation Boards of Canada

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