Rate Group DR Profile. Prepared by: Business Information and Analysis (BIA) 2012/07/19

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1 Profile Prepared by: Business Information and Analysis (BIA) 2012/07/19

2 Base Rates Classification Unit # CU Description % Change from 2011 to Cable or Hi-Lead Logging $9.46 $8.93 $8.50 $8.86 $8.80 $ % Dry Land Sort $9.48 $8.92 $8.48 $8.80 $8.73 $ % Ground Skidding, Horse Logging, or Log Loading $9.46 $8.93 $8.48 $8.80 $8.72 $ % Integrated Forest Management $9.46 $8.93 $8.51 $8.87 $8.89 $ % Log Booming or Marine Log Salvage $9.48 $8.92 $8.47 $8.71 $8.49 $ % Log Processing $9.46 $8.93 $8.48 $8.81 $8.71 $ % Logging Road Construction or Maintenance $9.48 $8.92 $8.49 $8.83 $8.82 $ % Manual Tree Falling and Bucking $9.46 $8.93 $8.46 $8.75 $8.55 $ % Mechanized Tree Falling $9.46 $8.93 $8.51 $8.84 $8.76 $ % Shake Block Cutting $9.48 $8.92 $8.50 $8.85 $8.87 $ % Helicopter Logging $9.39 $8.75 $8.30 $8.71 $8.84 $ % Of the 11 Classification Units above, 11 saw an increase and 0 saw a decrease or no change In 2012, Base Rates in the Cable or Hi-Lead Logging CU increased to $9.10, a 3.4% rise over the prior year. 2

3 Statistical Overview In 2011, there were 2,870 employers in this industry, a 26% decrease over the past four years. Year STD/LTD/Fatal Claims Claim Cost Paid* Work Days Lost* Injury Rate (per STD Duration 100 person-years Person Years (Average Days of employment) Lost per Claim) Serious Injuries** Accepted Fatalities $42,105,832 69, , $38,967,262 66, , $28,569,634 53, , $34,876,428 46, , $41,024,552 51, , Total 3,220 $185,543, , (Avg) 12,550 (Avg) 111 (Avg) 1, to 2011 % Change -35% -3% -26% -22% -18% 25% -30% 13% * Note: The Claim Cost Paid and Work Days Lost relate to the claims from all years of injury and are not just the results of the given year's claims. ** Note: Serious Injuries include claims with 28 or more work days paid, health care costs in excess of the equivalent of 28 or more days paid, a fatality, or one of the 275 selected ICD9 codes, and is first-paid within the month of injury or the three months following. 3

4 Claims by Classification Units (CUs) Top Six CUs , 90, 3% , 79, 3% Other CUs, 300, 9% , 135, 4% , 142, 4% , 1,775, 55% , 699, 22% Chain-Saw And Skidder Operators, Logging And Forestry Labourers, Logging Machinery Operators account for more than half of the selected CUs. 4

5 Non-NCO Claims per 100 Person-years of Employment Rate Group DR Injury Rate Trend Injury Rate - Rate Group DR Injury Rate - All BC The Injury Rate for the selected CUs remains higher than the Injury Rate for all BC CU's combined. 5

6 Non-HCO (Timeloss) Claims Person Years Rate Group DR Claims and Employment Trends 1,200 18,000 1, , , ,174 11, , ,000 14,000 12,000 10,000 8, ,000 4,000 2,000 0 # Non-HCO (Timeloss) Claims Person Years The estimated number of workers (Person Years) saw a significant increase in

7 Average STD Days per Claim Rate Group DR STD Duration Five-year Average Selected CUs All BC The average STD duration for the selected CUs is significantly higher than all-bc. 7

8 Average STD Days per Claim Rate Group DR STD Duration Five Year Trend Rate Group DR All BC The average STD duration for the selected CUs is significantly higher than all-bc. 8

9 Occupations (Top 10) % STD/LTD/Fatal Claims, Profile Occupation Type # of Claims % of Claims Chain-Saw And Skidder Operators % Logging And Forestry Labourers % Logging Machinery Operators % Truck Drivers % Primary Production Managers (Except Agriculture) 255 8% Heavy Equipment Operators (Except Crane) 161 5% Heavy-Duty Equipment Mechanics 146 5% Labourers In Wood, Pulp And Paper Processing 34 1% Drillers And Blasters, Surface Mining, Quarrying, Construction 28 1% Sawmill Machine Operators 22 1% Other % Grand Total 3, % Chain-Saw And Skidder Operators, Logging And Forestry Labourers, Logging Machinery Operators account for more than half of the claims in the selected CUs. 9

10 Age and Gender % STD/LTD/Fatal Claims, Profile Male Female Total Age # of Claims % of Claims # of Claims % of Claims # of Claims % of Claims % 0 0% 0 0% % 8 0% 219 7% % 6 0% % % 7 0% % % 21 1% % % 10 0% % 65 and Over 141 4% 0 0% 141 4% Total 3,159 98% 52 2% 3, % Young Workers (aged 15-24) represent 7%, while Mature Workers (aged 55+) represent 21% of the total STD/LTD/Fatal claims. The majority of these claims were made by males. * There are 9 claims where the age and gender were uncoded. 10

11 Accident and Injury Type Accident Type Claims Claim Costs Days Paid Struck By 23% Struck By 36% Struck By 26% Fall from Elevation 16% Fall from Elevation 15% Fall from Elevation 21% Overexertion 13% MVIs 12% Fall on Same Level 12% Fall on Same Level 13% Overexertion 8% Overexertion 12% Other Bodily Motion 8% Fall on Same Level 7% MVIs 9% Other 27% Other 21% Other 19% Injury Type Claims Claim Costs Days Paid Other Strains 31% Fractures 34% Other Strains 34% Fractures 16% Other Strains 24% Fractures 31% Back Strain 12% Back Strain 8% Back Strain 9% Contusion 11% Multiple Injuries 7% Contusion 6% Laceration 8% Contusion 5% Laceration 4% Other 23% Other 23% Other 16% 11

12 Other Injury Factors % STD/LTD/Fatal Claims, Profile Body Part Injured Wrist, Fingers & Hand, 436, 14% Other, 1432, 44% Back, 426, 13% Other, 1082, 34% Source of Injury Trees, plants, 623, 19% Shoulders, 265, 8% Ankle, Toe & Feet, 290, 9% Knee, 371, 12% Working Surfaces, 585, 18% Machines, 282, 9% Vehicles, 291, 9% Bodily Motion, 357, 11% 12

13 Serious Injury Claims Between 2007 and 2011, the selected CUs combined for 1,515 Serious Injury Claims*. Serious Injuries represent 55% of the claims in the classification unit. Accident Type Injury Type Struck By 27% Other Strains 30% Fall from Elevation 19% Fractures 30% Fall on Same Level 14% Back Strain 11% Overexertion 12% Contusion 7% Other Bodily Motion 8% Laceration 6% Other 20% Other 16% Serious injury claim characteristics are generally similar to those of non-serious injuries, although the serious injury claims in these CUs are slightly more likely to involve: fractures. * Serious Injuries include claims with 28 or more work days paid, health care costs in excess of the equivalent of 28 or more days paid, a fatality, or one of 275 selected ICD9 codes, and is first-paid within the month of injury or the three months following. 13

14 Accepted Fatalities Accepted Year Occupation Description CU 2012 Skidder Operator Worker was run over and crushed by a skidder when it was struck by another machine Loader Operator Loader rolled forward and pinned worker against a logging truck frame Tree Faller Worker was struck by a falling tree Faller Struck by a falling tree Boom Man Worker was swiftering booms and disappeared. worker drowned Principal-Logging Motor vehicle incident. worker's vehicle collided head-on with another vehicle Swamper Motor vehicle incident. worker was run over by a van in a parking lot Tree Faller Struck by a falling tree Mechanic Supervisor Single motor vehicle incident. vehicle ran off road Processor Operator Attempting to clear wood from a log processor. when wood shifted, grapple arms of processor head crushed the worker Hooktender Worker was struck by a runaway log Tree Faller Struck by a falling tree Logging Labourer Exposure to asbestos: mesothelioma Chokerman Exposure to asbestos: lung cancer Log Truck Driver Motor vehicle incident Feller-Buncher Oper Feller-buncher overturned and caught fire. worker was trapped in the cab Faller The broken top portion of a standing tree fell and struck worker Skidder Operator Skidder overturned Log Truck Driver Involved in a single-vehicle accident. truck ran off the road Log Loader Operator Log loader fell from barge into ocean. worker drowned Falling Contractor Worker was crushed by roots while bucking a windfall Faller Struck by a large slab that fell from a tree Feller-Buncher Oper Motor vehicle incident. pickup truck ran off road Mechanic Exposure to asbestos: mesothelioma Log Truck Driver Motor vehicle accident. log truck collided with another log truck Faller Windfall tree pivoted and pinned worker Faller Struck by a tree Faller Struck by a tree Driller-Blaster Struck and pinned by a log against the track of an excavator Log Truck Driver Worker was struck on the head by a trailer reach, causing him to fall back and strike head against a bunk stake of the log truck Equipment Operator Worker was falling a tree which barber-chaired and struck him Faller Supervisor A snag fell on the worker Faller Struck by a falling tree or snag Forestry Engineer Worker fell into creek and was swept over a waterfall and drowned Faller Worker was struck by the top of a danger tree Logger Struck by a falling tree, resulting in quadriplegia. cause of death: respiratory failure Logger Worker fell approximately seven feet while in the bush, resulting in quadriplegia. cause of death: sepsis

15 Definitions % Serious Injury Claims: The percentage of STD, LTD, and Fatal claims that are considered to be a Serious Injury. Calculated as the number of Serious Injury Claims divided by the number of Non-Health Care Only claims first-paid in the month of injury or in the following three months. Accident Type: The accident or exposure that describes the manner in which the injury or disease was produced or inflicted by the identified source of injury or disease. (Mapped coding level) Age Range: The injured worker's age group as of the time of injury. Child workers are aged under 15. Young Workers are aged 15 to 24. General workers are between 25 and 54. Mature Worker are older than 55. Assessable Payroll: The amount of payroll used in computing an employer's assessment amount in a given classification unit (CU), summed for all Employer-CUs in the report selection criteria. Assessment Amount: The amount of assessment an employer will pay as a result of being assessed at the Net Rate (i.e. with consideration of the experience rating and/or transitioning), summed for all Employer-CUs in the report selection criteria. Body Part: The body part or bodily system, directly affected by an injury or disease identified in the nature of injury classification. (Mapped coding level) Claim Cost Paid: The sum of all health-care (HC) payments, short term disability (STD) payments, vocational rehabilitation (VR) payments, long-term disability (LTD) reserves and one-time cash awards, and survivor benefit reserves and one-time cash awards charged in the year, regardless of the year of injury. Classification Unit (CU) is the lowest level of industry grouping used by the WorkSafeBC. Employer Count: A count of the number of employers with Person Years greater than zero in the given year. A multi-classification employer will be counted for each of the CUs that are included in the report selection criteria. Fatal Claims Accepted: The number of claims accepted for survivor or fatal benefits. Claims are counted based on the date of a first fatal benefit (reserve set or cash award), regardless of the year of injury. Statistical Services is the source for these counts. Where a fatal claim been transferred from one CU to another in a year following the year it was originally accepted, there is a +1 count in the new CU in the year-month of transfer and a -1 count in the original CU in the year-month of transfer. Where a fatal claim is disallowed in a year following the year it was accepted, there is a -1 count in respect of that fatal claim in the year-month it was disallowed. First-Paid LTD claims: The number of claims with long-term disability costs (LTD reserve or a cash award) where the first LTD payment date is within the year. Claims may have payments under other benefit types. Injury Rate: The number of non-health care only claims per 100 person-years of covered employment, where 100 person-years is the equivalent of 100 full-time & part-time employees working in the year. 15

16 Definitions Mature Worker Claims: The number of STD/LTD/Fatal Claims where the worker is aged 55 or older at the time of injury. Nature of Injury: The injury or illness in terms of its principal physical characteristics. (Mapped coding level) Non-HCO Claims (Time Loss Claims): The number of claims with costs related to at least one of the following benefits types: short-term disability benefits (STD), long-term disability benefits (LTD), or survivor (Fatal) benefits and where the first STD/LTD/Fatal payment date is within the year of injury or the three months following the year of injury. Occupation: The collection of jobs, sufficiently similar in work performed to be grouped under a common title for classification purposes. (Statistics Canada s SOC91 coding level.) Person Years: The estimated number of persons working all year on either a part-time or full-time basis. Estimates of person year quantities are based on gross payrolls submitted by employers and on matching wage-rate data. (Note: Person Years is not available for some Fishing CUs.) Serious Injury Claims: The number of claims with a first Short Term Disability (STD), Long Term Disability (LTD), or Fatal payment in the month of injury or the three months following the month of injury AND where at least one of the following is met: (a) long duration (wage-loss in the period of 28 or more days); (b) high health-care costs (costs in the period equivalent to 28 or more days of wage-loss); (c) fatality (fatal benefit payment in the period); (d) serious medical diagnosis (one of 275 selected ICD9 codes). Serious Injury Rate: The number of Serious Injury Claims per 100 person-years of covered employment, where 100 person-years is the equivalent of 100 full-time & part-time employees working in the year. Source of Injury: The object, substance, exposure, or bodily motion that directly produced, transmitted, or inflicted the injury or illness previously identified. (Mapped coding level) STD (Short-term Disability) Duration: STD Duration represents an estimate of the average number of STD Days paid for each STD claim. It is calculated according to the methodology developed by the Association of Workers' Compensation Boards of Canada (AWCBC), and is based on all STD days paid in the year including days lost on injuries that occurred prior to the start of the 12-month period. Days arising from rehabilitation payments are excluded from the calculation. STD/LTD/Fatal (SLF) Claims: The number of claims with costs related to at least one of the following benefits types: short-term disability benefits (STD), long-term disability benefits (LTD), or survivor benefits (Fatal) and where the first STD/LTD/Fatal payment date is within the year. Work Days Lost: The total number of short-term disability (STD) work days paid in the year regardless of the year of injury. (Days arising from rehabilitation payments are excluded.) Young Worker Claims: The number of STD/LTD/Fatal Claims where the worker is aged between 15 and 24 at the time of injury. 16