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. 2013 Dec 26;8(12):e84870. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084870

Table 1. Proportions of injury mechanisms.

Injury mechanism (n = 11676)
Blunt trauma (%) 8814 (75.5) Vehicular impact when the patient is inside vehicle (%) 622 (5.3)
Pedestrian injury (%) 468 (4.0)
Injury to motorcyclist (%) 158 (1.4)
Injury to cyclist (%) 313 (2.7)
Assaults (intentional injury) (%) 1265 (10.8)
Fall down injury (%) 699 (6.02)
Blast injury (%) 1(0)
Slip down injury (%) 4595(39.4)
Injury by blunt object (%) 693 (5.9)
Penetrating injury (%) 12 (0.1) Knife (%) 10 (0.1)
Gun (%) 1 (0)
Foreign object (%) 1 (0)
Simple laceration (%) 620 (5.3)
Burn (%) 376 (3.2)
Hanging (%) 9 (0.1)
Drug Intoxication (%) 160 (1.4)
Animal bite (%) 176 (1.5)
Foreign body in airway track or alimentary track (%) 981 (8.4)
Crushing injury by machines (%) 237 (2.0)
Dislocation (jaw or shoulder dislocation, pulled elbow) (%) 291 (2.5)

Note: Data in parentheses are the proportion of patient numbers