Accidents or Unintentional Injuries
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Data are for the U.S.
Emergency department visits
Number of emergency department visits for unintentional injuries: 28.1 million
Mortality
All unintentional injury deaths
- Number of deaths: 136,053
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 42.7
- Cause of death rank: 4
Unintentional fall deaths
- Number of deaths: 31,959
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.0
Motor vehicle traffic deaths
- Number of deaths: 33,736
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.6
Unintentional poisoning deaths
- Number of deaths: 42,032
- Deaths per 100,000 population: 13.2
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2014, tables 9, 18 [PDF - 5.4 MB]
More data
- All Injuries
- Assault/Homicide
- CDC WONDER-Multiple Cause-of-Death Data
- CDC WONDER - Underlying Cause of Death
- Deaths: Drug-poisoning Deaths in the United States: 1999-2015
- Deaths From Unintentional Injury Among Adults Aged 65 and Over: United States, 2000–2013
- Deaths: Leading Causes for 2014 [PDF - 3.5 MB]
- Drugs Most Frequently Involved in Drug Overdose Deaths, 2010-2014
- Emergency Department Visits for Drug Poisoning: United States, 2008-2011
- Emergency Department Visits for Motor Vehicle Traffic Injuries: United States, 2010–2011
- 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
- Self-inflicted Injury/Suicide
- Sports and Recreation Related Injury Episodes in the United States, 2011-2014 [PDF - 272 KB]
- Unintentional Drowning Deaths in the United States, 1999–2010
- Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS)
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- Page last reviewed: January 20, 2017
- Page last updated: March 17, 2017
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