Table 2:

Mean values for the three chest injury groups from the CIREN database.

	PC− and Chest Injury−	PC− and Chest Injury+	PC+ and Chest Injury+
Maximum Crush	44.39 cm	44.02 cm	50.35 cm
Crush Area	4305.44 cm2	4636.58 cm2	5530.31 cm2
DV/BES	29.24 kph	30.21 kph	34.78 kph
Energy	77.80 kJ	70.22 kJ	91.26 kJ
Age	31.83 years	46.54 years	34.62 years
BMI	24 kg/m2	27 kg/m2	26 kg/m2
ISS	15.89	24.29	32.34
Male : Female	0.93:1	0.72:1	1.02:1