Alberta Employer Workplace Injury and Fatality Claims

Employer Records from the Government of Alberta contain counts and rates of occupational fatalities, lost-time injuries, and disabling injury claims reported to the Workers’ Compensation Board. The data is reported by March 31 each year for employers required to have WCB accounts. This dataset allows for tracking workplace health and safety performance indicators over time.

Use Cases

• Benchmark workplace safety performance across employers based on reported injury and fatality rates.
• Analyze trends in occupational health incidents over time based on the time-series tracking capability.
• Identify high-risk industries or employer profiles based on the reported claim counts and rates.

Strengths

• Data is reported annually by a statutory deadline (March 31), suggesting a structured collection process.
• Includes multiple key workplace safety metrics: fatality counts, lost-time injury counts, and disabling injury rates.
• Last updated on 2026-04-02 12:43:05.843587, indicating recent maintenance.

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 the Province of Alberta.

Provenance

Source

Government of Alberta | Gouvernement de l'Alberta

Collection Method

Information reported to the Workers’ Compensation Board by employers required to have WCB accounts.

Time Range

Annual reporting by March 31; specific temporal coverage is not provided.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-02 12:43:05.843587; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Province of Alberta, Canada.