- Author
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Wulff, J. J.
- Title
- Procedure for Estimating the Costs of Injuries Associated With Household Products.
- Sponsor
- National Commission on Product Safety, Washington, DC
- Report
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Project 70-166
March 1970
150 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Contract
- NCPS-70-166
- Keywords
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injuries
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costs
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accidents
- Abstract
- The frequency of accidental injuries involving household products is surprising when the facts are first presented. Possibly the surprise is there because houlehold accidents do not get the notice that attends other common events in everyday life. For example, consider all deaths over the past year among persons known to you due to any and all causes. Now multiply the number of deaths times ten, and, if you know a representative spectrum of people, you have the likely number of persons known to you who suffered injuries assiciated with household products last year. To put the size of the problem another way, the number of people in our nation who required physiciancare, emergency room care, hospital care, or who were actively-restricted for at least one day during the past year becauseof product-related injuries is roughly equal to the total Negro populaiton of the United States, about 22 million people. The total number of injury cases related to household products summed over the next ten years will roughly equal the number of people in the entire country, if no actions are taken to reduce current rates of injury.