Posted by TJ on Tuesday January 19, 2010 @ 02:12 AM
[Tags: health, statistics, serious]

The Consumer Product Safety Commission's National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) offers a database from a sample of 100 hospital emergency rooms in the United States and its territories. Patient information is collected from NEISS hospitals for every emergency visit involving an injury associated with consumer products.

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Besides reading about the strange ways people hurt themselves this database can also be used to find the most dangerous sport by counting the results for each sport:

Here are the results:
Football: 14,579
Soccer: 6,159.
Baseball: 4,042
Softball: 2,748
Hockey: 1,567
Wrestling: 1,483
Volleyball: 1,469
Cheerleading: 779
Tennis: 760
Jogging: 403
Basketball: 362
Rugby: 328

Also if you want to stay away from the emergency room don't buy... these:
Trampoline: 3,078
bicycle: 2,639
swing: 2,439

What weird things can you find? http://www.sun-sentinel2.com/features/ftlaudNEISS/ftlaudNEISS08_list.php