CNESST death claims data shows accepted claims for fatalities resulting from work accidents or occupational diseases under Québec's LATMP law. The dataset includes claims accepted between January 1 and December 31 of a reference year, though the death may have occurred earlier. It is published by the Government and Municipalities of Québec under a CC-BY-4.0 license.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in fatal occupational incidents based on accepted death claims
- Assess the impact of the LATMP law on compensation outcomes
- Study the temporal relationship between incident occurrence and claim acceptance
Strengths
- Data is sourced from the official Québec occupational health and safety regulator (CNESST)
- Claims are defined by specific legal criteria under the LATMP
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to Québec
Provenance
- Source
- Government and Municipalities of Québec | Gouvernement et municipalités du Québec
- Collection Method
- Administrative records from the CNESST occupational health and safety insurance plan.
- Time Range
- Claims accepted between January 1 and December 31 of a reference year.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:52:07.786191; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Québec, Canada