WSIAT Outcome Timeline (2020-2026)

11,430 workplace injury appeals from the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal (WSIAT) analyzed to reveal outcome clarity patterns serving injured workers, people with disabilities, and vulnerable communities.
💡 Disability Justice Context: This visualization analyzes WSIAT (workplace injury appeals), but outcome obscurity affects the broader disability community across ONSBT (disability benefit appeals), HRTO (human rights & discrimination claims), and other tribunals. Systematic outcome obscurity is a transparency barrier preventing injured workers and people with disabilities from understanding their chances at tribunal. This is a disability justice issue.
Clear Outcome (Win/Loss Determinable)
Unclear Outcome (Indeterminate from Keywords)
Total Decisions
Year Total Decisions Clear Outcome Unclear Outcome % Unclear

📊 Data & Methodology

Data Source: 11,430 WSIAT decisions from CanLII (2020-2026), analyzed April 2026

Outcome Classification Method: Keyword-based inference from decision text. "Clear outcome" = decision text contains outcome indicators ("allowed," "dismissed," "granted," "denied"). "Unclear outcome" = no standard outcome language found (77% of all decisions).

Limitation: CanLII API responses do not include standardized structured outcome labels for these decisions. Keyword-based classification is approximate. To get 100% accurate outcomes, would require manual reading of each decision.

Why This Matters: Outcome obscurity is a systemic transparency failure. If researchers with technical tools can't determine outcomes, how can injured workers understand their chances? This barrier affects decision-making about whether to appeal, what evidence to gather, and whether the system is fair.

CanLII Statement: CanLII makes every effort to provide comprehensive databases while noting content depends on document-provision sources and that transfer/processing delays can temporarily result in missing documents before omissions are corrected (see canlii.org).

📖 About This Research

Created by: 3mpwrApp — grassroots disability justice project by and for injured workers, people with disabilities, and vulnerable communities

Purpose: Provide transparency into tribunal patterns to help people navigate WSIAT appeals, ONSBT disability benefit claims, HRTO discrimination cases, and other administrative justice systems

License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike)

Report Date: May 14, 2026

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