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Slide 12

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Most school injuries are minor; serious injuries are more likely to occur at home or in the community. Emergency Medical Service, or EMS, dispatches to schools represent only 6% of all EMS incidents for school-aged children. Fatalities are rare: about 1 in 400 injury-related fatalities among children aged 5 to 19 occurs at school.

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