Unweighted and weighted number of incident cases of injury (persons) and associated rates; comparison using principal and multiple injury incident cases
| Characteristics | Unweighted principal injury incident cases | Weighted principal injury incident cases | Principal injury rate (per 100 000 persons) | Unweighted multiple injury incident cases | Weighted multiple injury incident cases | Multiple injury rate per 100 000 persons | Rate ratio |
| Diagnosis | |||||||
| Sprain/strain | 7864 | 1381097 | 470 | 8970 | 1575267 | 536 | 1.14 |
| Contusion/abrasion | 4177 | 757086 | 258 | 6588 | 1221482 | 416 | 1.61 |
| Laceration/avulsion | 752 | 169302 | 58 | 1277 | 250812 | 85 | 1.47 |
| Fracture/dislocation | 1172 | 196044 | 67 | 1423 | 234762 | 80 | 1.19 |
| Other* | 2285 | 390252 | 133 | 3041 | 685329 | 233 | 1.75 |
| Body region | |||||||
| Head | 2515 | 410509 | 140 | 3023 | 514254 | 175 | 1.25 |
| Neck | 5671 | 979228 | 334 | 6769 | 1177315 | 401 | 1.20 |
| Upper trunk | 2541 | 451899 | 154 | 4369 | 773642 | 263 | 1.71 |
| Lower trunk | 1904 | 348150 | 119 | 4082 | 724574 | 247 | 2.08 |
| Extremities | 2345 | 432931 | 147 | 4271 | 786243 | 268 | 1.82 |
| Other | 1063 | 248087 | 85 | 1977 | 391677 | 133 | 1.56 |
| Specific injury | |||||||
| Whiplash injury | 5499 | 955588 | 325 | 6474 | 1126207 | 384 | 1.18 |
Rates are expressed as injury cases per 100 000 persons.
*The “other” diagnosis category includes internal organ injury and concussion.