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: 121,599
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 40.6
- Cause of death rank: 5
Unintentional fall deaths
- Number of deaths: 20,823
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 7.0
Motor vehicle traffic deaths
- Number of deaths: 43,664
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 14.6
Unintentional poisoning deaths
- Number of deaths: 27,531
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 9.2
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2006, Tables B, 18
More data
- All Injuries
- Assault/Homicide
- CDC WONDER-Compressed Mortality File Underlying Cause-of-Death
- Deaths: Final Data for 2006
- Deaths: Injuries, 2002
- Deaths: Leading Causes 2004
- Fact Sheet: Data on Injuries
- Health Data Interactive
- Health, United States Trend Tables on Injury
- Injury in the United States, 2007 Chartbook
- Self-inflicted Injury/Suicide
- Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)
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