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[null,"Description:"]
[null,"We are looking at any trends in the arboriculture industry around the use of hand saws or chain saws (or other accidents relating to the industry)"]
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[null,"Caveats and notes:"]
[null,"The tables on the following sheet are based on claims data:"]
[null,null,"Claim is accepted for cover"]
[null,null,"Claim lodgement date is between 1 July 2018 and 30 June 2024."]
[null,null,"Claim is not managed by an accredited employer."]
[null,null,"Chainsaw related claims are identified if off road agency is equals to 'Tool - Chainsaw' or accident description contains key words 'chainsaw' or 'handsaw'."]
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[null,"Please note that there's no classification unit code specifically for Arboriculture industry. In this case, Arboriculture is defined by classification code equal to 95250 Gardening and turf management services and accident description contains key word 'tree'. "]
[null,"A financial year is 1 July to 30 June."]
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[null,"New claims - the claims in these tables have been counted by the date that claim was lodged with ACC. This can be immediately after the injury occurred or at any"]
[null,"later stage."]
[null,"The accident description is a non-mandatory free-text field on the ACC45. The nature and quality of responses varies. These data should therefore be considered indicative,"]
[null,"but not a definitive account of claims."]
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[null,"ACC does not have a measure for severity of injury. However, the types of payments received for a claim can give an indication of the impact to a clients life and have been provided as follows:  "]
[null,"- Entitlement Claims: These claims received an entitlements such as weekly compensation, vocational or social rehabilitation.  "]
[null,"- Medical Fee Only Claims: These claims did not receive any of the payments listed under entitlement claims or other benefit claims above but did receive payments for medical treatment, dental treatment or conveyance for medical treatment.  "]
[null,"- No Payments Claims: These claims do not have any associated payments. These are usually claims that received only treatment at a public hospital during the acute phase of an injury (see PHAS payments explained above).  "]
[null,"- Fatal claims: Claims with claim is fatal indicator."]
[null,"- Serious claims: Claims with serious injury indicator."]
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[null,"Please note that ACC is not able to provide comprehensive fatality statistics as ACC data is collected on the basis of claims made. Our data may not represent the total number of fatalities related to accidents for the following reasons:  \n-Many people are not aware that they can make a claim related to an accidental death of family member and therefore ACC only ever receives claims for a subset of accidental deaths. \n- If a person who has an open claim with ACC dies of their injuries, or other causes, ACC is not necessarily notified of this.  "]
[null,"Diagnosis is based on primary injury diagnosis. A claim may have more than one injury diagnosis, but only the primary one is included here. "]
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[null,"In the interest of client privacy claim counts of less than four claims have been replaced with '<4', if the presence of totals could allow a suppressed number to be derived further suppression is displayed as '..'. "]
[null,"Data were extracted on 31 July 2024 and may differ if rerun at a later date."]

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[null,"Table 1. Number of new claims for arboriculture between 2019 and 2024 financial year.",null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,"Table 3. Number of new claims for arboriculture between 2019 and 2024 financial year, by severity."]
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[null,null,"Claim Lodgement Financial Year",null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,"Claim Lodgement Financial Year"]
[null,"Measure","2018/19","2019/20","2020/21","2021/22","2022/23","2023/24",null,null,"Severity","2018/19","2019/20","2020/21","2021/22","2022/23","2023/24"]
[null,"Chainsaw Related Claims",22,20,27,15,25,21,null,null,"Fatal",null,null,null,null,"<4"]
[null,"Other Claims",275,249,262,206,259,247,null,null,"Entitlement Payments",49,48,52,41,49,54]
[null,"Grand Total",297,269,289,221,284,268,null,null,"Medical Treatment Only",222,195,206,160,200,199]
[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,"No Payments",26,26,31,20,"..",15]
[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,"Grand Total",297,269,289,221,284,268]
[null,"Table 2. Number of new claims for arboriculture between 2019 and 2024 financial year, by injury cause."]
[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,"Table 4. Number of new claims for arboriculture between 2019 and 2024 financial year, by primary diagnosis."]
[null,null,"Claim Lodgement Financial Year"]
[null,"Injury Cause","2018/19","2019/20","2020/21","2021/22","2022/23","2023/24",null,null,null,"Claim Lodgement Financial Year"]
[null,"Loss Balance / Personal Control",57,62,68,52,67,73,null,null,"Primary Diagnosis","2018/19","2019/20","2020/21","2021/22","2022/23","2023/24"]
[null,"Puncture",57,52,45,33,53,47,null,null,"Soft Tissue Injury",157,148,157,127,152,142]
[null,"Lifting / Carrying / Strain",48,37,36,26,33,28,null,null,"Laceration / Puncture / Sting",76,67,72,47,79,75]
[null,"Object Coming Loose / Shifting",17,23,29,21,25,24,null,null,"Fracture / Dislocation",17,16,10,11,16,16]
[null,"Wk Property or Characteristics",17,13,18,20,22,19,null,null,"Foreign Body In Orifice / Eye",18,14,15,10,11,11]
[null,"Pushed or Pulled",16,20,21,13,19,16,null,null,"Concussion","<4",null,4,"<4","<4","<4"]
[null,"Slipping, Skidding on Foot",18,13,13,17,17,9,null,null,"Other / Unknown","..",24,31,"..","..",".."]
[null,"Struck by Held Tool / Implement",10,14,18,14,14,13,null,null,"Grand Total",297,269,289,221,284,268]
[null,"Twisting Movement",15,11,14,8,14,16]
[null,"Collision / Knocked Over by Object",18,11,9,11,12,10]
[null,"Other / Unknown",24,13,18,6,8,13]
[null,"Grand Total",297,269,289,221,284,268]