Table 6.

Nature of injury by regions – grouped according to claim rate grouping in Figure 1.

	Lowest rate region		Lower rate region		Middle rate region		High rate region		Highest rate region
Nature of Injury	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Cuts	45	15.1%	217	16.3%	716	19.7%	767	17.0%	750	19.1%
Burns	10	3.3%	75	5.6%	168	4.6%	221	4.9%	168	4.3%
Fractures	--	--	90	6.7%	191	5.3%	252	5.6%	209	5.3%
Amputations	--	--	13	1.0%	40	1.1%	50	1.1%	36	0.9%
Sprains & Strains	101	33.8%	409	30.7%	1089	29.9%	1396	30.9%	1214	30.9%
Contusions	39	13.0%	154	11.5%	544	15.0%	619	13.7%	521	13.2%
Other	104	34.8%	376	28.2%	890	24.5%	1208	26.8%	1035	26.3%

-- supressed due to low cell counts