Nobody plans on having an accident, but they’re more common than you’d think. Below, you can explore how likely certain accidents are to happen each year. Click on each event to learn about its frequency. You might be surprised by how likely it is you’ll need accident insurance at some point!
Breaking a bone
1 in 54
6 million Americans break a bone each year.
Source: “Aids for One Armed Tasks”, The Ohio State University, 2019.
Child/teen sports injury
1 in 10
About 30 million kids play an organized sport – around 3.5 million of them will get hurt in an average year.
250,000 rotator cuff repairs are performed every year in the U.S. – just one of many tendon/ligament injuries that can require surgery.
Source: “Primary and Secondary Consequences of Rotator Cuff Injury on Joint Stabilizing Tissues in the Shoulder,” Journal of Biomedical Engineering, 2017.
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