The year (2022–2023) in numbers
Ontario’s workforce
- Ontario had about 7.7 million workers.
footnote 5 - About 7 million of these workers worked in workplaces under provincial jurisdiction.
Traumatic fatalities
Traumatic fatalities are all allowed claims from people who died in that year of a work-related traumatic incident. They exclude claims from people who passed away while in receipt of 100% permanent disability benefits granted under a pre-1990 legislative framework (source: WSIB Glossary).
In 2022, as of January 31, 2024, a total of 264 allowed workplace fatalities were recognized in the Workplace Safety Insurance Board (WSIB) health and safety statistics
The following data are as of January 31, 2024.
| Sector | Portion of total traumatic fatalities |
|---|---|
| Construction | 31% |
| Transportation and warehousing | 19% |
| Manufacturing | 13% |
| Sectors | Portion of occupational disease fatalities |
|---|---|
| Schedule 2 firms | 25% |
| Specialty trades construction and non-residential building construction | 16.67% |
| Nursing and residential care facilities | 16.67% |
| Type of fatality | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Traumatic | 82 | 69 | 72 | 81 | 90 |
| Occupational disease | 217 | 193 | 203 | 189 | 174 |
| Total number of fatalities per year | 299 | 262 | 275 | 270 | 264 |
Critical injuries
Critical injuries that occur at the workplace must be reported directly to the ministry.
| MLITSD program | Number of critical injury events |
|---|---|
| Industrial | 1,828 |
| Construction | 417 |
| Health care | 373 |
| Mining | 67 |
| Total | 2,685 |
Total number of critical injury events reported to the ministry each year:
- 2018: 2,136 critical injury events
- 2019: 2,411 critical injury events
- 2020: 2,035 critical injury events
- 2021: 2,387 critical injury events
- 2022: 2,685 critical injury events
Allowed injuries
| Type of workplace | Number of lost-time injury claims | Number of no lost-time injury claims |
|---|---|---|
| Schedule 1 (pay premiums and covered by collective liability) | 65,566 | 89,039 |
| Schedule 2 (employers who pay costs of their claims) | 19,338 | 10,607 |
| Claim type / claim rate | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total allowed lost-time injury claims | 50,283 | 50,048 | 49,820 | 59,141 | 65,566 |
| Allowed lost-time injury rate (per 100 workers) | 1.04 | 1.0 | 1.09 | 1.24 | 1.30 |
| Total allowed no lost-time injury claims | 116,616 | 118,881 | 83,940 | 89,244 | 89,039 |
| Allowed no lost-time injury rate (per 100 workers) | 2.40 | 2.38 | 1.83 | 1.88 | 1.74 |
| Claim type / claim rate | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total allowed lost-time injury claims | 17,029 | 17,097 | 12,216 | 15,116 | 19,338 |
| Allowed lost-time injury rate (per 100 workers) | 2.26 | 2.26 | 1.6 | 1.93 | 2.39 |
| Total allowed no lost-time injury claims | 15,522 | 15,606 | 9,586 | 9,586 | 10,607 |
| Allowed no lost-time injury rate (per 100 workers) | 2.06 | 2.07 | 1.25 | 1.22 | 1.31 |
Footnotes
- footnote[5] Back to paragraph Source: Labour market report, April 2022.
- footnote[6] Back to paragraph This includes 90 traumatic fatalities and 174 occupational disease fatalities. In addition, there were 12 fatalities recognized by WSIB in 2022 due to COVID-19. The COVID-19 fatalities are not included in fatalities figures in the tables provided.
- footnote[7] Back to paragraph WSIB Health and Safety statistics are updated regularly. The ministry is using the latest available data for the purposes of the 2022-23 Annual Report (as of January 31, 2024). Data from previous years have all been updated accordingly.
- footnote[8] Back to paragraph For this report, Class G has been named “Construction.” Class G includes the following Subclasses: G1 - Building construction; G2 - Infrastructure construction; G3 - Foundation, structure and building exterior construction; G4 - Building equipment construction; G5 - Specialty trades construction; G1B - Residential building construction; G6 - Non-residential building construction.
- footnote[9] Back to paragraph For this report, Class F has been named “Transportation and warehousing.” Class F includes the following Subclasses: F1 - Rail, Water, Truck Transportation and Postal Service; F2 - Air, Transit, Ground passenger, Recreational and pipeline transportation, Courier services and warehousing.
- footnote[10] Back to paragraph For this report, Class E has been named “Manufacturing”. Class E includes the following Subclasses: E1 - Food, textiles and related manufacturing; E2 - Non-metallic and mineral manufacturing; E3 - Printing, petroleum and chemical manufacturing; E4 - Metal transportation equipment and furniture manufacturing; E5 - Machinery, electrical equipment and miscellaneous manufacturing.
- footnote[11] Back to paragraph Self-insured businesses
- footnote[12] Back to paragraph Schedule 1 allowed injuries data from 2020 and onward includes COVID-19 related claims. There were a record-high number of COVID-19 claims in 2022, accounting for 30% of the allowed lost-time injury claims. This demonstrates the ongoing impacts that the pandemic has had on Ontario workers. As the landscape of work adjusts in the post-pandemic world, the ministry will continue to monitor the injury data and evaluate the impact of the progress toward the targets.
Updated: October 23, 2024
Published: October 23, 2024