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All data comes directly from WorkSafeBC (WSBC) Notices of Incident. All information is preliminary and subject to change pending further investigation. Any changes are reflected on this site as soon as the Council is notified of them.
There are two areas where the Council's reporting of serious injuries and fatalities differs from WSBC's.
The Council includes both "Sawmills" and "Traveling to and from work" in its serious injury and fatality statistics for the forestry sector: WSBC does not. As a result of including these two extra categories, the Council's serious injury and fatality count may be higher than that of WSBC.
Caution must be exercised when comparing the Council's Serious Injury and Fatality statistics with those of WSBC. WSBC and the Council use different collection and reporting conventions and this does not lend itself to a direct number - to - number comparison.
It is also important to note that neither the Council nor WSBC include heart attacks in the workplace fatality count.
When the Council has accurate information on a fatality it is immediately sent out as a Council Notice of Incident. The information is later adjusted upon receiving official notice from the WSBC and the changes are reflected in this website's database.
| Manual Tree Falling |
These include fallers and buckers and tree toppers |
| Yarding/Mechanical Harvesting |
Yarding/Mechanical Harvesting includes Cable or Hi-Lead Logging, Dry Land Sort, Ground Skidding, Horse Logging, or Log Loading, Log Booming, Log Processing and Mechanized Tree Falling |
| Log Hauling |
Log Hauling includes Log Hauling, Log Towing, Lumber and Chips and Logging Road Construction or Maintenance |
| Silviculture |
Silviculture includes Brushing and Weeding or Tree Thinning or Spacing, Slash Burning, Surveys, Chemical Brushing and Weeding or Tree Thinning or Spacing and Tree Planting or Cone Picking |
| Helicopter Logging |
The harvesting of trees with the use of helicopters |
| Wildfire Fighting |
This would include activities such as: initial attack, expanded attack, patrol, falling danger trees, mop up, heli-pad construction etc. |
| Sawmills |
Sawmills includes Sawmills and Mechanical Pulp and Paper Mill |
| Traveling to and from Work |
This includes injuries and fatalities that occur when an employee is traveling to or from work |
| Miscellaneous |
Miscellaneous includes Shake Block Cutting, Marine Log Salvage |
These figures are based on counts of fatalities, serious injuries, and/or close calls that are reported in Notices of Incident (preliminary investigations) to WorkSafeBC as required under Division 10 of the Workers' Compensation Act. For more information please visit WorkSafeBC at
worksafebc.com/claims/serious_injury_fatal/default.asp
Note that Notices of Incident (NOIs) are not adjudicated claims (i.e., accepted time-loss claims that have been adjudicated through the WorkSafeBC compensation process).
Comparisons of NOI counts using any of the above three categories should not be used for trending purposes or making quantitative generalizations. There are three reasons for this
- NOIs are not time-loss claims that have been adjudicated through the WorkSafeBC compensation process.
- NOIs are preliminary investigations and are subject to change as they are constantly updated.
- NOIs are subject to significant under reporting when compared to the number of claims registered and reported to WorkSafeBC. Information sought from NOIs should be used for research purposes applied in conjunction with best Occupational Health and Safety practices on a case-by-case basis.
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