Accidents or Unintentional Injuries
(Data are for the U.S.)
Health care use
- Number of emergency department visits for unintentional inujuries: 27.7 million
Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006 Emergency Department Summary, Table 13
Mortality
All unintentional injury deaths
- Number of deaths: 117, 809
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 39.7
- Cause of death rank: 5
Motor vehicle traffic deaths
- Number of deaths: 43,667
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 14.7
Unintentional poisoning deaths
- Number of deaths: 23,618
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 8.0
Unintentional fall deaths
- Number of deaths: 19,656
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 6.6
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2005, Tables B, 18
More data
- All Injuries
- Self-inflicted Injury/Suicide
- Assault/Homicide
- Fact Sheet: Data on Injuries
- Injury in the United States, 2007 Chartbook
- Deaths: Final Data for 2005
- Deaths: Leading Causes 2004
- Deaths: Injuries, 2002
- Health, United States Trend Tables on Injury
- Health Data Interactive
- Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)
- CDC WONDER-Compressed Mortality File Underlying Cause-of-Death
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