Accidents Caused By Your Body Parts!
The 6 billion annual accident claims industry is big business in the United Kingdom. It includes claims for falls, for accidents that occur in workplaces, for negligence by medical staff or hospitals and a host of others.
But while accidents where someone else is liable are fairly common, they’re nowhere near as common as the accidents where the only liability falls to ourselves! Yes, we’re a clumsy bunch it seems.
The Home and Leisure Accidents stats figures are a great insight into what is causing our accidents and where they’re happening. It breaks annual incident totals into age, gender, location of accident, body part injured and objects involved! It’s rather a comprehensive database.
In 2002, more than 24000 people had an accident caused by an ‘uninjured body part.’ Yes, people (and lots of them) have been injuring themselves with their own body.
Bizarrely, this database shows that in the year 2002, 24,641 people suffered accidents involving an ‘uninjured body part.’ Almost 10,000 of these accidents took place inside the home! Now, thinking about accidents involving uninjured body parts conjures up all sorts of images of people treading on their own toes, catching themselves in the face with their own arm or just generally managing to twist, bend, tear or otherwise damage one part of their body – using another. Unfortunately, the RoSPA database doesn’t divulge details of specific incidents. This is a terrible shame because reading individual cases would undoubtedly prove entertaining.
And while accidents are, generally speaking, no laughing matter, in our compensation culture, I think it’s acceptable to enjoy a laugh at some of these more comedic capers. It’s actually fairly refreshing to hear of calamities like this, providing they don’t end in serious injury, of course!
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