All fatalities no matter when they occur are tragic events and the BC Forest Safety Council (BCFSC) extends sincere condolences to the family members and co-workers of those workers who were lost.
The BCFSC will continue to support industry in further reducing fatalities and serious injuries in 2020. Sharing the knowledge from incident investigations is one way to improve the industry’s safety performance. The Safety Alerts webpage contains incident information submitted by forest companies from across the province. See /safety_info/alerts_bulletins.html
For harvesting fatality claims, we use the WorkSafeBC data of accepted claims for trends, although it may not specifically indicate current year fatalities, it is the only long term data base for comparative purposes.
Based on WorkdSafeBC data through to 2019:
Wood Product Manufacturing Injury Rates and Claims Costs Paid
Based on WorkdSafeBC data through to 2019:
Aggregate and Classification Unit (CU) graphs for Manufacturing
