Table 3.
Difficulty level of via ferratas in relation to injury severity in Austria from 1 November 2008 to 31 October 2018. Grading was performed using the Austrian Scale by Kurt Schall (Table S1) [4].
| Difficulty Level of Via Ferrata | Uninjured n (%) |
Injured n (%) |
Dead n (%) |
Unknown n (%) |
Total n (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade A | 38 (50.0) | 22 (28.9) | 10 (13.2) | 6 (7.9) | 76 (4.5) |
| Grade B | 104 (46.6) | 76 (34.2) | 11 (4.9) | 32 (14.3) | 223 (13.2) |
| Grade C | 218 (56.6) | 126 (32.7) | 3 (0.8) | 38 (9.9) | 385 (22.9) |
| Grade D | 255 (59.9) | 108 (25.3) | 19 (4.5) | 44 (10.3) | 426 (25.3) |
| Grade E | 74 (62.7) | 40 (34.0) | 1 (0.8) | 3 (2.5) | 118 (7.0) |
| Other | 271 (59.4) | 117 (25.6) | 18 (4.0) | 50 (11.0) | 456 (27.1) |
| Total | 960 (57.0) | 489 (29.0) | 62 (3.7) | 173 (10.3) | 1684 (100.0) |
Note: Other was terrain of either undefined or unknown severity grading.