It appears Yukoners rose to meet Chief Medical Officer Brendan Hanley's Day Without Injury challenge on Tuesday, coming through with flying colours, and more importantly, unscathed.

"It went well," said Hanley of the below-average number of visitors to the Whitehorse General Hospital's emergency ward on Tuesday. "The actual number of injuries appeared to be lower than normal."

According to Hanely, two injuries were reported in the communities, four in the capital and two on the job over the 24-hour period.

"All four (emergency patients) were treated and released and there were no serious injuries that day," he added.

A typical day in the territory usually sees between 15 to 20 people seeking emergency medical attention at the hospital.

As well, an average of 5.5 workplace injuries are reported daily to the Yukon Workers' Compensation Health and Safety Board.

The communities, however, are somewhat more difficult to pin down in terms of statistics.

"Some are very small so many days can go by without injuries and most (on Sept. 2) had zero injuries, so that was good," said Hanley, who thanked the media for getting the word out.

"I'd like to make this an annual event and next time have a little longer lead time," he continued.

"The primary aim was to get people thinking, so it would've been great if we did have a no-injury day but really, the concept was to help get people to see that injuries are predictable and preventable."

Statistics show that traumatic injuries kill Yukon males at three times the national average and females at 2 1/2 times.

As well, injuries to the territory's youth are responsible for more deaths than all other causes combined.