Emergency Department Visits for Injury
According to the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), in 2002-2003:

• Someone visits an emergency department approximately every 30 seconds and someone is hospitalized about every 10 minutes in Ontario due to an injury.
• One in four Emergency Department visits is injury-related.
• Children under the age of five are involved in more drowning or near-drowning incidents than those in any other age group.
• Falls are the leading cause of injury-related emergency department visits, hospitalizations and in-hospital deaths for older adults 65+ years.

Economic Burden of Injury in Ontario
According to SMARTRISK, a not-for-profit organization focusing on helping people approach everyday risks in a safer way in order to avoid injury, in 1999:

• There were over 4,000 deaths and 570,000 injuries that cost Ontarians more than $5.7 billion.
• Unintended falls were the most costly, totaling more than $1.9 billion, of which seniors 55+ accounted for almost half of these costs ($962 million). 
• Motor vehicle collisions were the second most costly injury at more than $1.1 billion.

World Report on Child Injury Prevention

• According to this joint WHO/Unicef report, more than 2,000 children die every day as a result of unintentional injuries. This translates into approximately 950,000 children under the age of 18 dying of an injury each year.
• In 2006, Safe Kids Canada issued a national report showing that from 1994 to 2003, an estimated average of 390 Canadian children age 14 and under died from unintentional injuries and another 25,500 children were hospitalized each year over the ten year period because of their injuries
  (Safe Kids Canada).