tricking: How dangerous is it… really?

Not the most recent stats by any means, but this’ll give you a rough indication of how ‘dangerous’ that thing you’re doing really is. Always handy when someone says ‘you’ll kill yourself doing that’ (which tends to happen at least for everyday of my life for the past 20yrs) The number of people visiting emergency rooms is listed after the equipment/activity.

Sport/Activity	Number
1. Basketball	644,921
2. Bicycling (including mountain biking)	567,002
3. Football	334,420
4. Baseball	326,569
5. Skating roller, ice, and in-line	201,150
6. Soccer	148,913
7. Track and field (including exercise equipment)	140,756
8. Snow Skiing	84,190
9. Trampolines	82,722
10. Other sports and cheerleading	78,694
11. Hockey	77,492
12. Swings and swing sets	73,923
13. Fishing	72,598
14. Monkey bars and playground climbing equipment	71,828
15. Volleyball	67,340
16. Swimming pools (ex. diving boards & other equip)	62,812
17. Horseback Riding	58,709
18. Weight lifting	56,724
19. All-terrain vehicles	55,400
20. Slides and Sliding boards	45,767
21. Wrestling	39,829
22. Golf (excluding golf carts)	39,473
23. Snowboarding	37,638
24. Gymnastics	33,373
25. Dancing	30,378
26. Powered trail bikes and minibikes	28,677
27. Swimming	72,681
28. Sleds	26,067
29. Playground equipment (ex swings and climbing)	52,374
30. Martial Arts	24,123
31. Bowling	23,317
32. Tennis	22,294
33. Bleachers	19,443
34. Go carts	18,497
35. Guns (gas, air or spring-loaded)	17,923
36. Guns (BB or pellet)	16,148
37. Grills	16,088
38. Snowmobiles	12,676
39. Amusement rides and attractions	10,768
40. Water skiing	10,657
41. Squash, racquet ball, paddle ball	10,438

Now that’s the sort of stats I’m normally quoted, regarding how safe or dangerous something is… but thats not the list you should be concentrating on. Here, the same list below, is a better representation, as its sorted to show the percentage of hospital admissions in desending order.

Sport/ActivityÂ	% of Visits
1. Horseback Riding	9
2. All-terrain vehicles	7.5
3. Snow Skiing	5.5
4. Powered trail bikes and minibikes	5.1
5. Go carts	3.9
6. Swimming pools (ex. diving boards & other equip)	3.8
7. Bicycling (including mountain biking)	3.6
8. Sleds	3.6
9. Monkey bars and playground climbing equipment	3.5
10. Tennis	3.5
11. Gymnastics	3.2
12. Track and field (including exercise equipment)	3.1
13. Grills	3.1
14. Trampolines	3
15. Amusement rides and attractions	2.9
16. Guns (BB or pellet)	2.8
17. Water skiing	2.8
18. Slides and Sliding boards	2.7
19. Skating roller, ice, and in-line	2.6
20. Snowboarding	2.5
21. Golf (excluding golf carts)	2.3
22. Dancing	2.1
23. Swings and swing sets	2
24. Guns (gas, air or spring-loaded)	2
25. Snowmobiles	2
25. Squash, racquet ball, paddle ball	1.8
26. Wrestling	1.7
27. Playground equipment (ex swings and climbing)	1.5
28. Martial Arts	1.5
29. Bowling	1.5
30. Football	1.4
31. Swimming	1.4
32. Weight lifting	1.2
33. Bleachers	1.2
34. Baseball	1.1
35. Soccer	1.1
36. Hockey	0.9
37. Other sports and cheerleading	0.8
38. Fishing	0.8
39. Basketball	0.6
40. Volleyball	0.5

all statistics are flawed tho… so don’t get too excited. Its just an indicator.  

mark

~ by Mark on October 20, 2007.