Injuring Yourself With Yourself?
Accident claims are big business in the United Kingdom, totalling more than 6 billion annually, made up of road accidents, workplace accidents and illness, slips, trips and falls, medical negligence and a number of others too.
While accidents caused by others (ie accidents that are often eligible for accident claims) do make up a good number of the UK’s accident statistics each year, accidents where we have nobody to blame but ourselves make up an even higher number of the total. Are we really as clumsy as the stats suggest?
The Healthy and Leisure Accident statistics shed some light on the accidents that occur each year in the UK by allowing you to search through by age of patient, location of accident, gender and object or item involved, amongst other criteria. A few of the more bizarre injury incidents recorded do raise a chuckle but perhaps none more so than this one:
Some of the statistics within the Home and Leisure Accidents database are, to say the least, a little bit odd. Back in 2002, for example, a total of 24,641 people managed to injure themselves with “an uninjured body part.” That is to say, they injured themselves with themselves.
It wouldn’t be unreasonable for this fact alone to conjure up visuals of some random person swinging their arms around wildly and subsequently hitting themselves in the face in a scene reminiscent of a bad slapstick comedy movie or those a little worse for wear treading on left foot with their right. However, unfortunately for us, the database doesn’t spill the details of individual cases. That’s a travesty, as reading through those would undoubtedly be 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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