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Subject: statistics on injuries assoiciated with dirtbiking
Category: Sports and Recreation > Outdoors
Asked by: gene62-ga
List Price: $5.00
Posted: 09 Jun 2004 15:26 PDT
Expires: 09 Jul 2004 15:26 PDT
Question ID: 358825
Are there any statistics on injuries assoiciated with dirtbiking ? I
am working on a college report. Thank you
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Subject: Re: statistics on injuries assoiciated with dirtbiking
Answered By: pafalafa-ga on 09 Jun 2004 16:51 PDT
Rated:5 out of 5 stars
 
Hello Gene,


According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, there were
64,219 injuries in 2002 related to "2-wheeled, powered, off-road
vehisle", otherwise known as dirtbikes.  Of these, 3,683 injuries were
serious enough to require hospitalization.  There were no reports of
fatalities in the CPSC database.

CPSC operates the "National Electronic Injury Surveillance System"
which is available online at:


http://www.cpsc.gov/Neiss/oracle.html


At the bottom of the page is a button to "QUERY NEISS".  Pressing this
will take you to a query page where you can specify many different
types of data:  what caused the

injury (in your case, Product Code 5036 -- TWO-WHEELED, POWERED,
OFF-ROAD VEHICLES), how serious was the injury (fatal, needing
hospitalization, etc), what part of the body was injured (head, arms,
etc), and where did the injury occur (home, school, farm, etc).

Running a query gives you a simple numerical result:

==========

NEISS Query Results


Product Codes:  5036 - Two-Wheeled, Powered, Off-Road Vehicles
 
From 01/01/2002 to 12/31/2002

Historical Estimate: 64,219 National injury estimate


==========

A separate query gave me:

Treated & Admitted For Hospitalization, Hospitalized

Historical Estimate: 3,683 

==========

Note, too, that you can access individual case reports that look like this:


CPSC Case #: 20110598  Treatment Date: 01/02/2002  PSU: 60 Weight:
68.8791 Stratum: S
Age: 17  Sex: 1 - MALE Race: 1 - WHITE Race Other:  
Diagnosis: 72 - AVULSION Diag Other:  
Body Part: 30 - SHOULDER 
Disposition: 1=TREATED & RELEASED, OR EXAMINED & RELEASED WITHOUT TRTMNT 
Location: 9 - SPORTS OR RECREATION PLACE Fire Involvement: 0 - NO FIRE INVOLVEMENT 
Products: 5036 - TWO-WHEELED, POWERED, OFF-ROAD VEHICLES 
  

Narrative: FELL OFF DIRT BIKE ONTO LT. SHOULDER 

 DX: CONTUSION LT. SHOULDER W/ AVULSION CORACOID PROCESS 


============


It's a powerful system, but also takes a bit of playing around with to
become familiar with its capabilities.

So go ahead and play.  

If you have any questions about it all, just let me know  by posting a
Request for Clarification, and I'll be happy to help.

Have fun.

pafalafa-ga 


search strategy:  used bookmarked sites for injury statistics
gene62-ga rated this answer:5 out of 5 stars and gave an additional tip of: $5.00
answers my question completely with excellant references  for
additional research. than you

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Subject: Re: statistics on injuries assoiciated with dirtbiking
From: pafalafa-ga on 10 Jun 2004 07:39 PDT
 
Wow.  Thanks a lot Gene, for both the kind rating and the generous
tip.  I'm putting the money away towards the purchase of a new
dirtbike!

Good luck on your report.

paf

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