Accidents or Unintentional Injuries
(Data are for the U.S.)
Health care use
- Number of emergency department visits for unintentional injuries: 29.5 million
Mortality
All unintentional injury deaths
- Number of deaths: 118,021
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 38.4
- Cause of death rank: 5
Unintentional fall deaths
- Number of deaths: 24,792
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 8.1
Motor vehicle traffic deaths
- Number of deaths: 34,485
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 11.2
Unintentional poisoning deaths
- Number of deaths: 31,758
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.3
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2009, tables 9, 18 [PDF - 2.1 MB]
More data
- All Injuries
- Assault/Homicide
- CDC WONDER-Multiple Cause-of-Death Data
- CDC WONDER - Underlying Cause of Death
- Deaths: Leading Causes for 2008 [PDF - 2.8 MB]
- Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2010 [PDF - 724 KB]
- Health, United States Trend tables on Injury
- Injury in the United States, 2007 Chartbook [PDF - 6.6 MB]
- NCHS Fact Sheet - NCHS Data on Injuries
- Search Tables for Unintentional Injury in Health Data Interactive
- Self-inflicted Injury/Suicide
- Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)
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