INDEPTH: WORKPLACE SAFETY
Strain injures: 1999-2003
CBC News Online | April 24, 2006
* Ontario supplied no useful data in either Nature of Injury or Source of Injury for Strains or RSI.
Figures from WorkSafeBC for Ontario show average of 4, 177 RSI claims per year for last four years.
| STRAIN INJURIES |
|---|
| Alberta |
|---|
| Year |
Total |
Strain |
RSI |
| 1999 |
35,374 |
17,479 |
1,173 |
| 2000 |
39,376 |
18,958 |
1,561 |
| 2001 |
38,747 |
18,693 |
1,443 |
| 2002 |
38,416 |
18,731 |
1,577 |
| 2003 |
37,328 |
17,941 |
1,907 |
| Quebec |
|---|
| Year |
Total |
Strain |
RSI |
| 1999 |
154,874 |
62,548 |
6,379 |
| 2000 |
158,724 |
63,419 |
6,232 |
| 2001 |
151,718 |
61,645 |
6,294 |
| 2002 |
149,960 |
63,266 |
6,283 |
| 2003 |
146,679 |
62,605 |
6,773 |
| B.C. |
|---|
| Year |
Total |
Strain |
RSI |
| 1999 |
54,302 |
34,172 |
2,647 |
| 2000 |
47,372 |
29,566 |
2,144 |
| 2001 |
62,828 |
39,548 |
2,668 |
| 2002 |
56,428 |
34,665 |
2,080 |
| 2003 |
53,921 |
32,941 |
2,184 |
| Manitoba |
|---|
| Year |
Total |
Strain |
RSI |
| 1999 |
20,496 |
8,414 |
1,050 |
| 2000 |
20,863 |
8,689 |
1,009 |
| 2001 |
19,583 |
9,150 |
813 |
| 2002 |
19,395 |
9,507 |
949 |
| 2003 |
19,327 |
9,606 |
1,101 |
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