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WE ALL FALL DOWN—OFTEN
Summer 2009 was a tough season for politicians, and not just because of protracted Supreme Court hearings and healthcare debates.
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ACCIDENTS & DEATH–
WHEN AN ER IS OVERCROWDED, THE WAIT TIMES GET DANGEROUS
On June 19th, 2008, 49-year-old Esmin Elizabeth Green collapsed onto the floor of the psychiatric emergency room of Kings County Hospital Center in Brooklyn. She had been waiting more than 24 hours for an inpatient bed. For 20 minutes she writhed on the linoleum floor, and then stopped moving. Forty minutes later, a nurse nudged her. Green was already dead.
DAILY LIFE & ACTIVITIES–
TOASTER INCIDENTS POP UP IN ACCIDENT REPORTS
Very few adults eat toast for breakfast. Of the 1 in 1.64 who usually have a morning meal, almost a third (1 in 3.23) choose cold cereal. Many others opt for hot cereal or bacon and eggs. But toast is comparatively rare — just 1 in 20 people routinely eat it in the morning.
ACCIDENTS & DEATH–
A SMATTERING OF SPORTS INJURIES: IF YOU PLAY, PREPARE TO PAY
The odds a billiards player will be injured seriously enough to visit an emergency room playing billiards in a year are 1 in 6,734. It is almost twice as likely that a person will visit the emergency room because of an accident involving jewelry (1 in 3,758).
ACCIDENTS & DEATH–
THE TURKEY’S REVENGE: HOUSE FIRES ARE TWICE AS LIKELY ON THANKSGIVING
Once that turkey is finally in the oven be sure to keep an eye on it. Twice as many cooking-related house fires occur on Thanksgiving than any other day of the year. Not only that—the fires are deadlier and more expensive.
ACCIDENTS & DEATH–
GOLF CART INJURIES REACH A TIPPING POINT
According to the Center for Injury Research and Policy in Columbus, Ohio, the number of Americans injured by golf carts has skyrocketed in recent years, from 5,772 in 1990 to 13,411 in 2006—an increase of 132 percent over a 17-year period. In 2008, the odds of being injured in a golf cart incident were 1 in 19,100. But only half of those injuries took place on a golf course.
ACCIDENTS & DEATH–
BEHIND THE NUMBERS OF THE TITANIC DISASTER
Numbers for the casualties of the Titanic have been listed as high as 2,340 and as low as 2,201. Why is there so much uncertainty almost a century later?
ACCIDENTS & DEATH–
RESIDENTIAL FIRES CAN TURN DEADLY QUICKLY
A residential fire occurs every 78 seconds in the United States. In 2008, nearly 403,000 fires left homes charred black and water damaged from the battle between flame and firefighter. The worst blazes destroyed mementos, killed pets and ended families.
ACCIDENTS & DEATH–
BODY PARTS AND VAMPIRE BITES: THERE’S INSURANCE FOR THAT?
If you find yourself fretting about contracting rabies or waking up with strange marks on your neck, rest assured you can be covered by insurance. Lloyd’s has sold policies against vampire bites and werewolf attacks. They’ve even sold more than 40,000 policies against a bona fide (verifiable by video and lie detector test) alien abduction.
ACCIDENTS & DEATH–
BEHIND THE NUMBERS: THE SHARKS AND THE VENDING MACHINES
Book of Odds has recently addressed a much chewed-over Internet topic: what is more likely, to die from a shark attack or a vending machine accident?
