Safety Statistics and other Safety Facts
Motor-vehicle accidents account for 50 percent of all accidental deaths in the United States.
The National Safety Council reports that bicycles, stairs, and doors, in that order, cause more accidents in the home than any other objects.
Two-thirds of all people in the United States who choke to death are under four years of age, according to the National Safety Council.
If a car is moving at 55 miles per hour it will travel 56 feet before the driver can shift his foot from the accelerator to the break.
More Americans have died in automobile accidents than have died in all the wars ever fought by the United States.
Natural gas has no smell. The odor is artificially added so that people will be able to identify leaks and take measures to stop them.
The National Safety Council reports that seventy people a day die in home accidents in the United States. Falls account for the greatest number of deaths. Next in frequency are fire, poisoning, electrocution, and choking on food. Most of the people who die from falls are over sixty-five. Middle-aged people and infants die most often in fires. Teenagers succumb primarily to poison and drugs.
Firemen have the most dangerous job in America.
According to the National Safety Council, ingesting home chemicals such as detergents, solvents, and paint is not the major cause of poisoning among children. Children are poisoned most frequently by eating deadly plants.
According to the National Safety Council, a toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
According to the Health Insurance Institute, a person who suffers an accident on a motorcycle has a 90 percent chance of injury or death. A person involved in an automobile crash has only a 10 percent chance of the same. Motorcycles account for 4 percent of all licenses vehicles in American yet are involved in 8 percent of all accidents.
One million people each year are bitten by animals in the United States. Seventy-five percent of these bites are inflicted by wild animals. Approximately 30,000 of the victims must be treated for rabies.
Every 45 seconds a house catches fire in the United States.
According to the National Safety Council, there is one accidental death every five minutes in the United States. There is a major injury every three seconds.
The Insurance Information Institute reports that there is a motor-vehicle accident in the United States once every eighteen seconds. Deaths in motor-vehicle accidents occur on the average of once every eleven minutes.