Home Safety
Researchers at UNC IPRC recently completed a study of the epidemiology
of unintentional home injuries in the United States. The "State of Home Safety in America, Facts About Unintentional Injuries in the Home," a study commissioned by the Home Safety Council, found that between 1992 and 1999, on average, there were approximately 18,000 deaths per year -- representing 6.83 deaths for every 100,000 people. Leading causes of home injury death between 1992 and 1999 were falls and poisoning.
| Home Injury Deaths Per 100,000 from 1992-1999 | United States |
North Carolina |
Falls |
2.25 |
1.88 |
Poisonings |
1.83 |
0.73 |
Fire/burns |
1.29 |
1.86 |
Suffocations |
0.41 |
0.29 |
Drownings |
0.31 |
0.19 |
All Others |
0.73 |
0.89 |
All Injury Deaths |
6.83 |
5.83 |
IPRC Resources:
IPRC recently released the 2004 edition of “The State of Home Safety in America: Facts about Unintentional Injuries in the Home.”
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