All Injury Statistics
Approximately 12% of traumatic workplace fatalities in Manitoba are young workers.
Young male workers, particularly those between the ages of 20 & 24, have the worst time loss and all injury rates of any other group and are at a greater risk of work-related injury than any other group.
Young women are more likely than young men to be injured while working in health occupations and sales and service.
The body parts, which a young worker is most likely to injure, and that gives rise to lost time, are: back (including spine) (21%), fingers (18%), hands/wrists (12%).
When young workers are injured, they are most likely to experience these three types of injury: sprains, strains and tears (40%), open wounds (19%), surface wounds, bruises (15%).
Cooks, food service counter attendants, food and beverage servers, kitchen and food service helpers, and managers of restaurant and food comprise 4.66% of total time loss incidences.
In Canada, a worker is injured on the job every nine seconds of work time.
In Manitoba, between 1991 & 1998, 16 young workers were killed on the job.
During 2004, there were 1342 injuries reported to the WCB from the restaurant/catering industry code of which 562 were time loss claims. The restaurant, foodservice and hospitality industry employs approximately 35 000 people on the province of Manitoba, of which the majority of workers are under the age of 27.
Almost one of every four workplace injuries is hand related (23%).
In 2002 alone, Manitoba workers reported over eight thousand hand injuries to the Workers Compensation Board, totalling close to 43 000 days lost from work.
More than 25% of all hand injuries occur to young workers age 15-24.
Machines account for about 10% of all time loss hand injuries.
In the restaurant sector, 47.2% of their claims are for hand injuries.