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Data Source: Claims data, WorkSafe BC, current as of January 21, 2025. BCIRPU Injury Data Online Tool, 2025
Note: The data is limited by rateable sectors only. Total numbers may differ from what is published on the WorkSafe BC statistics site.
Disclaimer: Data does not include self-insured employers. Interpretation of the data and summary information in this table/chart is the responsibility of the user. The numbers may vary from other similar datasets due to discrepancies in coding categories.

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Data Source: Claims data, WorkSafe BC, current as of January 21, 2025. BCIRPU Injury Data Online Tool, 2025

Note: The data is limited by rateable sectors only. Total numbers may differ from what is published on the WorkSafe BC statistics site.

Disclaimer: Data does not include self-insured employers. Interpretation of the data and summary information in this table/chart is the responsibility of the user. The numbers may vary from other similar datasets due to discrepancies in coding categories.

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TERM	DESCRIPTION
Age Group	The injured worker's age group as of the claim date.
Body Part	The body part, or bodily system, directly affected by an injury or disease identified in the nature of injury classification.
Body Part Injured	Systems – includes injury to all body systems such as the circulatory, digestive, genitourinary, musco-skeletal, nervous, and respiratory systems.
Cause of Injury	The cause or exposure that describes the manner in which the injury or disease was produced or inflicted by the identified source of injury or disease.
Cause of Injury - Acts of violence/force	Acts of violence and force are cases where an act of violence initiated a chain of events that led to an injury. It also includes acts of force, which is an incident where a person was injured or made ill by a harmful act but there was no apparent intent to injure. An example is a health care worker injured while restraining an agitated patient.
Cause of Injury - Air/reail/water transportation incidents	Other transport accidents are events involving aircraft, rail and water vehicles.
Cause of Injury - Caught In	Caught in includes cases where the injury resulted from the squeezing, crushing, pinching that took place once contact with the object had started.
Cause of Injury - Contact with electricity	Electricity includes injuries resulting from contact with electric current.
Cause of Injury - Exposure to heat/cold	Heat, cold injuries are contact with cold or hot objects or exposure to hot or cold environments.
Cause of Injury - Exposure to noise	Noise exposure includes single or repeated exposure to noise.
Cause of Injury - Exposure to toxic substances	Toxic, noxious are injuries resulting from skin contact, inhalation or ingestion of radiation, caustics, toxic or noxious substances.
Cause of Injury - Fall from elevation	Fall from elevation includes cases where the injured person fell and landed on a level lower than the level fallen from. In some cases, like a fall from a log, the change in elevation is not large.
Cause of Injury - Fall on same level	Fall on same level includes cases where the injured person fell and landed on the something or surface that was on same level at which his feet were before the fall – (e.g., falling on a flat surface floor). This also includes cases where the person fell to a lower level, but the lower level was is only a few inches below the level the person started from, for example falling from a curb.
Cause of Injury - Involutary motion	Involuntary motion injuries are those that result from slips and other loss-of-balance events with no fall to the ground.
Cause of Injury - Matter in eye	Matter in eye are those where a foreign body caused superficial injury to the eye.
Cause of Injury - Motor vehicle incidents	Motor Vehicle accidents also referred as Motor Vehicle Incidents (MVIs) are events involving: 1) highway vehicles such as auto, bus, truck, motorcycle, bicycle & other non-powered highway vehicles, 2) off-road powered vehicles such as ATVs and snowmobiles, 3) industrial powered vehicles such as forklift and tractors, 4) powered mobile industrial, construction or agricultural equipment such as bulldozers, backhoes and harvesters, in which at least one vehicle is in normal operation and injury was due to collision or other type of traffic accident, loss of control, or sudden stop/start/jolting of vehicle or mobile equipment. This category includes pedestrians struck by vehicle. It excludes injuries from the use of non-transport component of mobile equipment such as being struck by rising forklift, unless the impact was also due to the travel of the vehicle.
Cause of Injury - Overexertion	Overexertion injuries are those resulting from the application of force to some object.
Cause of Injury - Repetative motion	Repetitive motion injuries are those resulting from repeated bodily motions (i.e., unrestricted free movement) where no individual repetition was likely to have caused the injury.
Cause of Injury - Rubbed, abraded	Rubbed, abraded are those where contact with an object thru leaning, kneeling, sitting, handling or repetition of pressure led to superficial injuries.
Cause of Injury - Struck against	Struck against accidents are those where the motion producing the contact with the object or source of injury was primarily that of the injured person.
Cause of Injury - Struck by	Struck by accidents are those where the motion producing the contact was primarily that of the object or source of the injury.
Healthcare Only Claims	The number of injuries for which a first health care payment is made in the calendar year, regardless of the year of injury and does not have any short-term disability (STD) payments, long-term disability (LTD) benefits, or survivor (Fatal) benefits in any year.
Injury Claims	Claims are included if a worker takes time off work due to the injury, receives a pension amount, or dies as a result of a work-related injury.
Injury Rate	The number of time-loss claims per 100 people working all year on either a part-time or full-time basis. The claim count includes injuries that occurred in a given year and were accepted for short-term disability, long-term disability, or survivor benefits in that year or in the first three months of the following year. Self-insured employers are not included in the calculation
Number of Person Years	The number of people working all year on either a part-time or full-time basis. WorkSafeBC estimates person-years using employers’ reported payroll. This is used in the Injury Rate calculation.
Number of Time-loss Claims	The number of injuries or fatalities for which short-term disability (STD), long-term disability (LTD), or survivor benefits have been awarded in the year. For the Time-loss claims used in the Injury Rate, claims are only included if the first payment is made within the year of injury or the three months following the year of injury.
Occupation	The collection of jobs, sufficiently similar in work performed to be grouped under a common title for classification purposes. Classification for occupant is based on groupings from Statistics Canada.
Occupation	Occupation is the collection of jobs, sufficiently similar in work performed to be grouped under a common title for classification purposes.
Sex	Gender of the injured worker: male, female, or not reported.
Source of Injury	The object, substance, exposure, or bodily motion that directly produced, transmitted, or inflicted the injury or illness previously identified.
Source of injury - Air pressure	Air Pressure includes injuries involved in high or low pressure and directly caused by deep diving, abnormal environment, caisson work, rarefied air, etc.
Source of injury - All conveyors	All Conveyors includes injuries directly caused by different conveyor parts like the belt, bucket, chain, roller, and wheels.
Source of injury - Animal products, food and productsts	Animal Products, Food Products includes injuries directly caused by using or consuming animal products or fruits.
Source of injury - Animals (live)	Animals (live) includes injuries directly caused by living animals or attacks from living animals.
Source of injury - Bodily motion	Bodily Motion includes injuries directly caused by any awkward positions, involuntary motion, repetitive motions, slippery surfaces, stepping in hole, etc.
Source of injury - Boilers, pressure vessels	Boilers, Pressure Vessels includes injuries directly caused by autoclaves, boilers in pressure vessels, oxygen tanks, etc.
Source of injury - Boxes, containers	Boxes, Containers includes injuries directly caused by bags, sacks, bottles, jugs, dishes, bowls, pots, etc.
Source of injury - Ceramic items	Ceramic Items includes injuries directly caused by bricks, pavers, cement, structural stones, etc.
Source of injury - Chemicals	Ceramic Items includes injuries directly caused by bricks, pavers, cement, structural stones, etc.
Source of injury - Clothing, textiles	Clothing, textiles includes injuries directly caused by apparel, textiles, jewelry, laundry, shoes, etc.
Source of injury - Drugs and medicine	Drugs and medicine includes injuries directly caused by use of drugs, access to bodily fluids, or other medicinal, etc.
Source of injury - Electrical apparatus	Electrical apparatus includes injuries directly caused by electrical equipment such as air conditioners, audio and video equipment, battery, clothes washers, meat grinders, etc.
Source of injury - Environmental cold	Environmental Cold includes injuries directly caused by accidents or cold injury due to the exposure to any cold environment.
Source of injury - Flame, fire, smoke & other heat	Flame, fire, smoke & other heat includes injuries directly caused by fire, flame, smoke, hot ashes or vapours (Non-chemical).
Source of injury - Furniture, fixtures	Furniture, fixtures includes injuries directly caused by beds, bookcases, chairs, desks, lamps, or other fixtures.
Source of injury - Glass items	Glass Items includes injuries directly caused by any drinking cups, glass panels, windows, beverage glasses, fibreglass (including fibreglass dust), glass chips, etc.
Source of injury - Hand tools	Hand Tools includes injuries directly caused by manually no-power tools such as augers, braces, cutting hand tools, drills, gauges, etc.
Source of injury - Heating equipment	Heating Equipment includes injuries directly caused by furnaces, heaters, hot water pipes, etc.
Source of injury - Hoisting apparatus	Hoisting Apparatus includes injuries directly caused by machines such as air hoist, chokers, cranes, elevators, hoisting accessories, etc.
Source of injury - Ladders	Ladders includes injuries directly caused by different types of ladders, such as extension ladders, fixed ladders, step ladders, truck mounted ladders, etc.
Source of injury - Liquids	Liquids includes injuries directly caused by water, steam, vapour, etc.
Source of injury - Logs, tree products	Logs, tree products includes injuries directly caused by any log products such as beams, blocks, dimensional lumber, books, cedar dust, etc.
Source of injury - Machines	Machines injuries include those directly caused by any types of machines, such as mixers, office machinery, packaging machinery, etc.
Source of injury - Metal items	Metal Items includes injuries directly caused by all metal parts of highway vehicles, irons, metal bands, metal beams, metal molds, flashing, etc.
Source of injury - Mineral items	Mineral Items includes injuries directly caused by clays, dirts, dusts, sands, rocks, etc.
Source of injury - Miscellaneous	Miscellaneous includes injuries directly caused by the sources of injury with less frequency, such as flooding, earthquakes, radioactive exposure, etc.
Source of injury - Noise	Noise includes injuries directly caused by noise, such as extreme noise waves.
Source of injury - Parasitic, infection	Parasitic, Infection includes injuries directly caused by any infection from bacteria, fungi, molds, spirochetes, and other viruses.
Source of injury - People	People includes injuries directly caused by a person other than injured or ill worker.
Source of injury - Power tools	Power Tools includes injuries directly caused by power-driven tools such as powered augers, powered chain saw, and other powered hand tools.
Source of injury - Sun, other radiation	Sun, other radiation includes injuries directly caused by exposure to sun, electric flash, lasers, microwaves, reactor fuels and wastes, x-ray, etc.
Source of injury - Tree, plants	Trees, plants includes injuries directly caused by branches, limbs, grain crops, cotton dusts, snags, etc.
Source of injury - Vehicles	Vehicles includes injuries directly caused by aircrafts, automobiles, bicycles, boats, trucks, golf carts, helicopters, etc.
Source of injury - Working surfaces	Working Surfaces includes injuries directly caused by hurts from any objects' surfaces such as floor of building, elevator, sidewalks, stairs, etc.
Type of Injury	The injury or illness in terms of its principal physical characteristics.
Type of Injury - Abrasion	Abrasion injuries are wounds to the skin, such as scratches, animal or insect bites, friction burns, and splinters.
Type of Injury - Amputation	Amputation injuries involve the loss of fingers, hands, feet, legs, arms, and other body parts.
Type of Injury - Asbestosis	Asbestosis injuries involve a lung disease caused from the inhalation of asbestos particles that causes progressive inflammation of the lungs.
Type of Injury - Back strain	Back strain injuries involve the stretching or tearing of muscles or tendons in the back, dislocations, disc disorders, and other back related injuries.
Type of Injury - Bursitis & related	Bursitis and Related injuries involve inflammation of a bursa, a fluid-filled sac found in joints like the knee or elbow.
Type of Injury - Cancer	Cancer injuries involve diseases or conditions related to tumors or neoplasms.
Type of Injury - Carpal tunnel syndrome	Carpal tunnel syndrome refers to injuries to the hands and fingers caused by the compression of a major nerve in the wrist.
Type of Injury - Chemical burns	Chemical burns injuries refer to first, second, or third-degree burns to internal or external organs caused by strong chemicals.
Type of Injury - Concussion	Concussion injuries are a type of brain injury.
Type of Injury - Conjunctivitis	Conjunctivitis injuries, commonly known as “pink eye”, refer to inflammation, ulcers, and disease of the conjunctiva, a portion of the eye.
Type of Injury - Contusion	Contusion injuries involve animal or insect bites, crushing, bruising, surface wounds, and other related injuries.
Type of Injury - Dermatitis	Dermatitis injuries refer to a skin condition that causes inflammation, redness, and soreness.
Type of Injury - Dislocation	Dislocation injuries refer to instances where the normal position of a joint of other body part is disturbed.
Type of Injury - Electrocusion	Electrocution injuries include electric shocks or burns.
Type of Injury - Exposure to cold	Exposure to cold injuries include frostbite, hypothermia, trench foot, and other effects related to low temperatures.
Type of Injury - Exposure to heat	Exposure to cold injuries include frostbite, hypothermia, trench foot, and other effects related to low temperatures.
Type of Injury - Fractures	Fractures involve the factures of a bone.
Type of Injury - Hearing loss	Hearing loss injuries include deafness, hearing impairment, and other related effects of diminished hearing.
Type of Injury - Heart attack	Heart attack injuries include various heart diseases and heart failure.
Type of Injury - Heat burns	Heat burns refer to first, second, or third-degree burns from heat.
Type of Injury - Hernia	Hernia injuries involve the displacement of part of an organ, causing it to protrude through the wall of the body part containing it.
Type of Injury - Infectious disease	Infectious disease injuries refer to diseases such as meningitis, salmonella, common colds, and many other infectious diseases.
Type of Injury - Laceration	Laceration injuries involve cuts, punctures, or other open wounds.
Type of Injury - Multiple injuries	Multiple injuries refers to instances involving more than one injury, such as fractures and burns, intracranial and internal organ injuries, or cuts and bruises.
Type of Injury - Other injuries	Other injuries include a variety of injuries, such as abnormal findings in blood or urine exams, general symptoms, traumatic shock, etc.
Type of Injury - Other occupational disease	Other occupational disease injuries refer to injuries like chronic pain, migraines, motion sickness, infertility, and many other related injuries.
Type of Injury - Other strains	Other strains injuries involve strains, sprains, and tears.
Type of Injury - Poisoning	Poisoning injuries involve abnormal blood levels of lead, metal fume fever, animal or insect bites, and other poisonings related to toxic effects.
Type of Injury - Radiation	Radiation injuries involve sickness, sunburn, inflammatory conditions, and other related injuries caused by radiation.
Type of Injury - Respiratory inflammation	Respiratory inflammation injuries refer to issues such as H1N1, pneumonia, bronchitis, and many other injuries that cause respiratory inflammation.
Type of Injury - Stress	Stress injuries include anxiety, mental disorders, post-traumatic stress, and other neurotic or psychological related injuries.
Type of Injury - Tendinitis/tenosynovitis	Tendinitis, tenosynovitis injuries involve the inflammation of a tendon and the protective covering surrounding the tendon.
Work-related Deaths	The number of claims accepted for survivor benefits in the period, regardless of whether a payment is made.

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