Accidents or Unintentional Injuries

(Data are for the U.S.)

 

Health care use

• Number of emergency department visits for unintentional injuries: 29.3 million

Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2010 Emergency Department Summary Tables, table 17 [PDF - 481 KB]

 

Mortality

All unintentional injury deaths

• Number of deaths: 120,859
• Deaths per 100,000 population: 39.1
• Cause of death rank: 5

Unintentional fall deaths

• Number of deaths: 26,009
• Deaths per 100,000 population: 8.4

Motor vehicle traffic deaths

• Number of deaths: 33,687
• Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.9

Unintentional poisoning deaths

• Number of deaths: 33,041
• Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.7

Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2010, tables 9, 18 [PDF - 3.1 MB]

 

More data

• All Injuries
• Assault/Homicide
• CDC WONDER-Multiple Cause-of-Death Data
• CDC WONDER - Underlying Cause of Death
• Deaths: Leading Causes for 2009 [PDF - 2.5 MB]
• Deaths: Preliminary Data for 2011 [PDF - 1.7 MB]
• Health, United States Trend tables on Injury
• Injury in the United States, 2007 Chartbook [PDF - 6.6 MB]
• NCHS Fact Sheet - NCHS Data on Drug Poisoning Deaths
• 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)