Alberta

• Injury deaths - 1, 626
• Hospitalized treatment – 27, 919
• Total cost – $2, 939 million
• Almost half (46%) of the total costs of injury in Alberta in 2004 were attributed to falls (26%) and transport incidents (20%)

British Columbia

• Injury deaths – 1, 721
• Hospitalized treatment – 32, 667
• Total Cost – $2, 812 million
• Motor vehicle incidents caused 44% of all transport related injury deaths in British Columbia in 2004 and accounted for over half of all hospitalizations (55%), emergency room visits (58%), and cases of permanent partial disability (54%), and permanent total disability (56%) arising from transport related injuries.
• After other (unspecified) falls, stairs were the leading cause of death by falls in British Columbia in 2004, accounting for 12% of all deaths by falling.

Manitoba

• Injury deaths - 647
• Hospitalized treatment – 9, 831
• Total cost – $915 million
• Manitoba had the highest provincial mortality rate from violence in 2004.
• In 2004, 70% of deaths from injury for Manitobans were unintentional.

New Brunswick

• Injury deaths - 358
• Hospitalized treatment – 6, 060
• Total cost – $463 million
• 72, 152 people were treated in emergency departments as a result of injury.
• There were 195 people hospitalized due to snowmobile/ATV incidents in 2004 in New Brunswick

Newfoundland and Labrador

• Injury deaths - 184
• Hospitalized treatment – 3, 268
• Total cost - $268 million
• 71, 152 people were treated in emergency departments as a result of injury in 2004.
• Transport incidents were responsible for the most injury deaths per capita (12.5 per 100,000 population).

Nova Scotia

• Injury deaths - 434
• Hospitalized treatment – 5, 518
• Total cost - $518 million
• Nova Scotia had the highest provincial mortality rate from Falls (12.6 per 100, 000) per capita
• In 2004, falls, transport incidents and suicide/self-harm were the leading cause of death by injury in Nova Scotia, accounting for 29%, 23% and 21% of deaths respectively.

Ontario

• Injury deaths – 4, 643
• Hospitalized Treatment - 71, 727
• Total cost – $6.8 billion
• There were 934 deaths due to transport incidents costing $1, 149 million total
• There were 2, 654 hospitalizations and 350 deaths as a result of unintentional poisonings in Ontario in 2004.

Prince Edward Island

• Injury deaths - 83
• Hospitalized Treatment – 1, 039
• Total Cost – $78 million
• Prince Edward Island had the highest provincial mortality rate for transport incidents in 2004.
• Falls were the leading cause of injuries resulting in permanent partial disability (49%) and permanent total disability (53%).

Quebec

• Injury deaths - 3, 427
• Hospitalized Treatment - 43, 618
• Total cost – $4.2 billion
• 43, 618 people required hospitalized treatment due to injury in Quebec in 2004.
• Falls on the same level were also the single greatest specified cause of costs due to falls, accounting for 33% of total costs, 34% in direct costs and 32% of indirect costs arising from falls in 2004.

Saskatchewan

• Injury Deaths - 554
• Hospitalized Treatment – 10, 121
• Total cost – $787 million
• In 2004, transport incidents were the leading cause of death by injury in Saskatchewan accounting for 23% of deaths respectively.

Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon

*Please note that this information is dated from early 2000

• The Northwest Territories rate of Potential Years of Life Lost (PYLL) due to unintentional injuries was nearly three times that of the national rate between 1999 and 2001. As was the case with suicide, men were more likely than women to die prematurely due to an unintentional injury.
• Shorter average lengths of stay were found in the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut at 3.4 average days in the hospital due to injury in 1999/2000.
• There were a total of 1,275 documented injuries in 1998-1999 in the territories.
• In 2000/2001, the highest injury admission rate (age-standardized) was in the Territories at 1,026 per 100,000 people.