Get The Facts from Injury Facts

Since its founding in 1913, the National Safety Council (NSC) has collected, analyzed, and reported preventable injury and fatality statistics.   NSC published the first comprehensive collection of injury and fatality data in the early 1920s, and has published it annually as Injury Facts® ever since.

Injury Facts® serves as a crucial measure of progress made in preventing deaths and injuries, as well as a guide that informs the new data we receive.  In this web page, you will find data on the causes, frequency, and costs of preventable injuries and how they affect us by age, sex, and race.

You can also measure the odds of dying from these events against other causes.

Speeding was a factor in 29% of all traffic fatalities in 2022, killing 12,151, or an average of over 33 people on a typical day. The total number of fatal motor-vehicle crashes attributable to speeding was 10,922. A crash is considered speeding-related if the driver was charged with a speeding-related offense or if racing, driving too fast for conditions, or exceeding the posted speed limit was indicated as a contributing factor in the crash.

Since 2013, poisoning has been the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. In 2022, falls were the second leading cause of preventable death, followed by motor-vehicle crash deaths. Choking continues to be the fourth leading cause of preventable injury death.

In 2022, an estimated 178,400 preventable injury-related deaths occurred in homes and communities, or about 78% of all preventable injury-related deaths that year. The number of deaths was up 1.6% from the 2021 total of 175,500.    An additional 53,500,000 people suffered nonfatal medically consulted injuries. The death rate per 100,000 population was 63.5 – about 1.1% higher than the 2021 rate.

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