Saskatchewan has an unhealthy unintentional injury rate. The province’s injury hospitalization rate is twice the national average and its death rate, at over 300 fatal injuries per year, is 1.4 times higher. Even though Saskatchewan's population is only three per cent of Canada's total, the number of unintentional injuries that occur here are nearly 7 per cent of all injuries in Canada. The human cost of pain and suffering is immeasurable.

Fact

In 1998, preventable injuries cost the people of Saskatchewan $612 million in direct costs.

In 1998, unintentional injuries that led to permanent disability or death amounted to $350 million in indirect costs.

When the two above amounts are indexed into today’s dollar value and when insurer disability costs are added, a conservative estimate of the true economic burden equals $1 billion.

These numbers remain the same today and have NOT dropped.