Industrial program sector trends

This page highlights the trend of fatalities, critical injuries, complaints, and work refusals from April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2026 in the industrial program and its subsectors.

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Background

The Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development keeps a record of:

visits to workplaces by occupational health and safety inspectors
events that are reported to the ministry, including fatalities, critical injuries, complaints and work refusals.

We use this data and data from sources such as the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board to help plan health and safety compliance campaigns and initiatives.

Industrial program summary

Table 1: Events in the industrial program by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	23	49	33	31	30	31
Critical injuries	1,342	1,679	1,872	1,963	2,114	2,365
Complaints	12,358	10,505	7,352	7,945	7,195	7,220
Work refusals	299	233	155	167	178	179
Occupational illness	4,174	4,824	2,042	1,102	1,000	924

Agricultural services

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Table 2: Events in agricultural services sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	1	3	4	2	4	0
Critical injuries	23	18	18	17	12	21
Complaints	168	123	100	99	84	85
Work refusals	1	4	1	1	0	0
Occupational illness	44	62	15	4	2	3

Automotive

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Table 3: Events in automotive sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	1	3	1	3	1	1
Critical injuries	92	101	122	123	131	112
Complaints	605	523	463	438	351	384
Work refusals	10	5	5	12	7	4
Occupational illness	96	129	73	35	31	34

Ceramics, glass and stone

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Table 4: Events in ceramics, glass, and stone sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	0	2	2	0	2	3
Critical injuries	13	14	20	14	21	19
Complaints	122	96	74	65	73	77
Work refusals	3	0	2	0	1	0
Occupational illness	30	50	5	2	1	1

Chemical, rubber and plastics

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Table 5: Events in chemical, rubber and plastics sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	1	1	1	1	2	0
Critical injuries	50	44	63	47	40	59
Complaints	362	263	212	224	202	165
Work refusals	10	4	1	5	4	3
Occupational illness	115	92	35	27	36	21

Construction premises

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Table 6: Events in construction premises sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	0	4	2	2	0	1
Critical injuries	16	19	22	24	21	14
Complaints	212	202	228	212	131	98
Work refusals	1	0	0	0	1	0
Occupational illness	44	48	7	1	1	2

Education

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Table 7: Events in education sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	0	0	0	0	0	0
Critical injuries	154	237	321	362	393	373
Complaints	487	421	293	387	403	426
Work refusals	33	56	49	41	44	63
Occupational illness	554	700	457	71	69	49

Electrical and electronics

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Table 8: Events in electrical and electronics sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	0	1	0	0	0	0
Critical injuries	7	14	11	8	12	23
Complaints	159	97	75	96	65	68
Work refusals	4	0	0	1	3	0
Occupational illness	54	43	9	5	1	1

Farming operations

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Table 9: Events in farming operations sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	2	2	2	1	2	5
Critical injuries	14	17	19	11	15	17
Complaints	106	85	49	39	42	43
Work refusals	0	0	0	1	0	0
Occupational illness	50	32	6	0	1	0

Film and television

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Table 10: Events in film and television sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	0	0	0	0	0	0
Critical injuries	7	4	9	2	7	9
Complaints	24	18	8	9	18	17
Work refusals	2	0	0	0	0	0
Occupational iIllness	5	7	0	0	0	1

Fire

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Table 11: Events in fire sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	0	0	0	0	0	0
Critical injuries	11	21	15	13	23	29
Complaints	41	37	23	20	20	22
Work refusals	3	0	0	0	2	0
Occupational illness	36	104	72	88	77	66

Fishing sector

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Table 12: Events in fishing sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2025-26
Fatalities	0	0	0	0	0
Critical injuries	0	0	3	1	0
Complaints	2	3	2	3	2
Work refusals	0	0	0	0	0
Occupational illness	2	3	1	0	0

Food, beverage and tobacco

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Table 13: Events in food, beverage and tobacco sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	0	0	0	3	4	0
Critical injuries	87	116	125	115	162	159
Complaints	981	745	463	485	453	502
Work refusals	9	5	9	10	9	6
Occupational illness	296	229	30	20	23	11

Government

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Table 14: Events in government sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	0	0	3	0	0	3
Critical injuries	82	100	95	136	155	146
Complaints	386	399	232	276	281	295
Work refusals	82	61	40	40	49	56
Occupational illness	224	316	334	223	195	267

Industrial services

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Table 15: Events in industrial services sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	2	5	5	7	4	5
Critical injuries	92	138	130	164	178	210
Complaints	942	870	608	783	742	683
Work refusals	9	7	4	4	10	8
Occupational illness	344	320	109	64	77	53

Live performance

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Table 16: Events in live performance sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	0	0	0	0	0	0
Critical injuries	0	0	3	5	4	3
Complaints	13	10	8	16	7	15
Work refusals	0	0	0	0	0	0
Occupational illness	0	6	1	0	0	0

Logging and sawmills

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Table 17: Events in logging and sawmills sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	1	1	0	2	0	0
Critical injuries	16	20	14	11	24	26
Complaints	51	60	49	51	49	27
Work refusals	0	0	0	1	0	1
Occupational illness	9	5	5	0	1	0

Office and related services

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Table 18: Events in office and related services sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	1	2	0	0	0	0
Critical injuries	33	32	51	47	56	73
Complaints	732	527	352	387	316	305
Work refusals	9	4	1	1	1	1
Occupational illness	204	216	113	69	31	22

Police service

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Table 19: Events in police services sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	1	0	0	1	0	0
Critical injuries	15	29	31	33	28	53
Complaints	33	24	12	13	12	12
Work refusals	0	0	0	0	0	0
Occupational illness	41	182	120	67	62	65

Primary metals

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Table 20: Events in primary metals sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	0	2	3	2	2	0
Critical injuries	33	31	42	34	43	35
Complaints	108	123	105	92	83	64
Work refusals	7	8	2	2	6	2
Occupational illness	253	244	226	276	271	224

Pulp and paper

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Table 21: Events in pulp and paper sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	0	0	0	0	0	2
Critical injuries	12	12	19	12	15	16
Complaints	116	66	41	46	34	49
Work refusals	3	0	1	0	0	0
Occupational illness	26	23	4	3	4	3

Restaurants

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Table 22: Events in restaurants sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	1	0	1	0	0	0
Critical injuries	7	17	16	20	33	20
Complaints	639	844	575	537	548	605
Work refusals	1	1	1	0	0	1
Occupational illness	111	179	11	0	1	1

Retail

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Table 23: Events in retail sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	0	0	0	0	1	1
Complaints	1,908	1,312	884	941	926	896
Critical injuries	153	181	188	192	187	227
Work refusals	17	5	4	5	7	2
Occupational illness	534	674	72	11	10	5

Textiles and printing

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Table 24: Events in textiles and printing sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	0	0	0	0	0	0
Critical injuries	8	9	7	16	6	11
Complaints	129	80	60	63	45	37
Work refusals	2	1	0	0	0	0
Occupational illness	39	40	11	6	3	3

Tourism, hospitality and recreational services

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Table 25: Events in tourism, hospitality and recreational services sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	1	1	3	0	0	0
Critical injuries	31	47	82	76	105	95
Complaints	406	471	372	415	350	295
Work refusals	3	3	4	8	3	1
Occupational illness	54	101	35	13	12	13

Transportation

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Table 26: Events in transportation sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	3	6	0	1	1	4
Critical injuries	88	112	100	108	118	164
Complaints	617	539	305	350	312	299
Work refusals	48	42	18	19	17	19
Occupational illness	221	229	90	23	27	15

Utilities

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Table 27: Events in utilities sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	1	0	0	1	1	0
Critical injuries	23	22	23	23	27	22
Complaints	82	60	45	51	41	31
Work refusals	7	8	1	0	1	2
Occupational illness	26	80	56	37	13	20

Vehicle sales and service

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Table 28: Events in vehicle sales and service sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	1	7	1	0	1	0
Critical injuries	28	39	18	18	16	22
Complaints	393	328	197	228	183	174
Work refusals	1	1	1	1	0	0
Occupational illness	74	98	2	0	3	1

Wholesalers

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Table 29: Events in wholesalers sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	2	2	0	2	1	1
Critical injuries	49	74	61	67	58	98
Complaints	543	404	295	291	252	245
Work refusals	5	5	5	1	2	0
Occupational illness	197	139	12	7	1	2

Wood and metal fabrication

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Table 30: Events in wood and metal fabrication sector by fiscal year
Event	2020-21	2021-22	2022-23	2023-24	2024-25	2025-26
Fatalities	4	7	5	3	3	0
Critical injuries	118	119	154	156	121	159
Complaints	1,117	907	608	626	558	565
Work refusals	16	10	4	8	9	5
Occupational illness	283	252	30	32	35	19

Statistical notes

Only critical injury events reported to the ministry are included in each sector.
These represent data that were reported to the ministry and may not represent what actually occurred at the workplace.
Some events may not have been classified under a specific subsector at the time data was downloaded for this report.
The critical injury numbers represent critical injuries reported to the ministry and not necessarily critical injuries as defined by the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA).
Non-workers who are critically injured may also be included in the ministry's data.
The Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development tracks and reports fatalities at workplaces covered by the OHSA. This excludes death from natural causes, death of non-workers at a workplace, suicides, death as a result of a criminal act or traffic accident (unless the OHSA is also implicated) and death from occupational exposures that occurred many years ago.
Data are subject to change because of inspectors' updates to the database.

Updated: October 19, 2026

Published: April 15, 2019