REGINA – In 2025, Saskatchewan saw a continued drop in workplace injury rates.
The 2025 total injury rate decreased by 5.88 per cent to 3.68 per 100 workers from 3.91 per 100 workers in 2024, setting a new provincial low for the fourth consecutive year, according to the Workers’ Compensation Board.
In 2025, the time loss injury rate dropped by 3.49 per cent to 1.66 per 100 workers from 1.72 per 100 workers in 2024.
As well, in 2025, 89 per cent of Saskatchewan workplaces had zero fatalities and zero injuries, just slightly below the 90 per cent of workplaces with zero fatalities and zero injuries in 2024.
“This historic low in the total injury rate is due to the continued focus on workplace safety and the collaboration among workers, employers, safety associations, employer associations and labour organizations across the province in advancing workplace safety,” said Gord Dobrowolsky, the WCB’s chair.
“Our collective efforts are driving injury rates down. However, while we celebrate our progress, we can’t forget that even one injury is one too many.”
“Although workplace injury rates and fatality rates in Saskatchewan are declining, each loss has a profound impact on families, workplaces and communities,” said the WCB’s CEO Phillip Germain. “That reality reinforces the need to keep working toward safer workplaces for every Saskatchewan worker.”
In 2025:
- Total injury claims accepted increased by 0.43 per cent to 17,401 from 17,327 in 2024. The total number of workers covered increased to 473,086 in 2025 from 443,344 in 2024.
- Accepted No Time Loss claims decreased to 9,561 in 2025 from 9,705 in 2024.
- Accepted Time Loss claims (excluding current-year fatalities) increased to 7,840 in 2025 from 7,609 in 2024.
- There were 27 workplace fatalities in 2025, which is the same as 2024. Of the 27 fatalities in 2025:
- 11 fatalities were due to occupational disease (eight of these were asbestos-related, two were firefighter cancer-related and the one remaining was the result of chemical exposure and radioactive material exposure).
- 16 fatalities were from traumatic incidents (five motor vehicle collisions, seven equipment contact and drowning, three heart attacks and one suffocation).
The 2025 and 2024 workplace fatality rates are the lowest rates the province has seen since 2017.
“Workplace injury trends are moving in a positive direction. But we continue to face workplace fatalities, serious injuries and time-loss injuries,” said Dobrowolsky. “We believe every workplace incident is preventable. We are committed to working toward a Saskatchewan that records no workplace fatalities and the lowest serious injury rate in Canada. We believe we are on the right track to get there.”
Every year in the province, approximately 2,500 workers suffer serious injuries. Serious injuries account for between 11 and 15 per cent of all claims in the province. These claims make up more than 80 per cent of the costs to the Saskatchewan compensation system and have devastating impacts on workers and employers.
“To continue to move in the right direction, it is only by working together to make workplace safety a priority that we can drive our injury rates even lower,” said Germain. “Not only does a safe workplace ensure every worker returns home safely, but it also provides benefits to the business.”
Learn more about the government’s Fatalities and Serious Injuries Strategy visit worksafesask.ca/fatalities-and-serious-injuries.
