Today is the seventh annual National Injury Prevention Day.
According to Parachute, a national charity dedicated to preventing injuries, the Canadian economy takes a $29.4 billion dollar hit every year due to injuries alone, and injury is the leading cause of death in Canadians aged 1-44.
They say every day 634 Canadians are hospitalized due to injury, and 48 die – 75% of those deaths are from unintentional causes (falling, car crashes, etc.).
They also report that Canadian children die to injury more than all other causes combined.
Parachute has compiled resources on 24 different types of injury, from ATVs to poisoning, to help Canadians become better educated on safety practices.
You can find them here.
Preventable injury kills more Canadian children than any disease, and more youth than all other causes combined. Every day, 48 Canadians die and 634 are hospitalized because of injuries. Learn more at https://t.co/am8vvJpICm #ParachuteNIPD pic.twitter.com/56lGp0wJ5a
— Northern Health (@Northern_Health) July 5, 2023
According to BC’s Injury Date Online Tool (iDOT), 2376 people were hospitalized by injuries in Northern Health in 2019/20.
In the same year, two out of every hundred people in BC were injured on the job.
You can find those stats, and many more, here.