Courtesy of thePrevention Department

Saskatchewan Workers’ Compensation Board

AMC (M91) – Youth InjuryData and Interpretation

Saskatchewan WCB considers Youth Injury to be between the ages of 14 and 24, even though manufacturing

operations are not allowed by OHS to employ 14 & 15 year olds

The following slides represent how the manufacturing industry compares to the other top four industries in youth

workplace injuries

As indicated in the graphs that follow, the retail sector has the highest number of injuries in

their top five employers, followed by the manufacturing

sector

It is interesting to note that M91 rate code employers are

experiencing a higher number of youth injuries than other manufacturing employers

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Top 5 Employers by Industry (2008)

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Top 5 Employers by Industry (2009)

There is a positive trend in all four industries, in that there is a decrease

in the overall number of injuries

There is a more than 50% decrease for the first place M91 company from 2008

to 2009

It is interesting to note that in the manufacturing sector, one “top five”

employer came off the 2008 to be replace with an M91 employer in 2009

Even though the “top five” employers in 2009 are all from the M91 rate

code, the injuries totaled 92 in the five companies in 2009 , which is far

less then the 146 injuries experienced by the only four M91 companies in

2008

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M91 - Youth Injuries (14 to 24)

The previous chart shows the number of injuries experienced in the M91 rate code for the following years:

2007 – 107 injuries (6.98% of all mfg injuries)2008 - 118 injuries (8.06% of all mfg injuries)2009 - 58 injuries (5.94% of all mfg injuries)

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Ages 14 to 24 - Injured Body Part (2009)

This chart displays that the majority of injuries experienced by young workers in M91 were to hands, eyes and backs

Agriculture Construc-tion

Retail Mineral Re-sources

Health & Municipal

Manufac-turing

Road Con-struction

Hospitality & Service

Transporta-tion

Utility Op-erations

Federal Forestry

2007 206 1016 1816 440 479 1531 194 1246 238 12 6 27

2008 134 1169 1818 463 506 1464 184 1147 238 20 2 24

2009 170 1024 1473 268 512 975 149 942 172 19 1 13

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