The latest death and injury stats from the Workplace Safety & Insurance Board (WSIB) report over 200 fatality claims and over 120,000 injuries.
The tally for 2011 reached 436 workplace fatalities and 240,342 injury claims. It appears that the alarming trend in workplace tragedies remains unabated.
2012 WSIB Stats (to the end of June 2012)
209 – Total fatalities reported
46 – Traumatic on-the-job deaths were reported, but only 36 have been allowed so far
145 – Occupational disease related deaths were reported, 92 have been allowed so far
120,223 – Total injuries reported, of which only 89,956 have been allowed so far
“It is time to demand that every employer who jeopardizes the health and safety of workers is put in jail. This workplace carnage will not stop until bad bosses are escorted out of their boardrooms in handcuffs!” – OFL President Sid Ryan
