Preventable Deaths Reach an All-Time High
Every four minutes, someone in the United States dies from an injury.
The number of Americans dying from preventable injuries has reached an all-time high, according to analysis from the National Safety Council.
Preventable injuries, commonly known as “accidents,” claimed 136,053 lives in 2014 – a 57 percent increase since 1992, when deaths from preventable injuries were as low as they had been in 68 years. Preventable injuries are now the fourth leading cause of death in the United States behind heart disease, cancer and chronic respiratory disease.
