Falls, road collisions, drowning, fire, explosion, structural collapse and building defects, electrical and gas incidents, and industrial injury.
Over 400 Americans a year die from carbon monoxide unrelated to fires. The symptoms impersonate flu — but CO causes no fever, affects everyone in the building at once, and eases when you leave the house. What actually distinguishes them.
Observation surveys found no unrestrained infants on the road — yet a quarter of infant crash deaths were unrestrained. Car seats cut fatal injury risk 71% for babies. The stages, and the five installation mistakes that keep showing up.
Dampness affects an estimated 10–50% of homes, and the evidence linking it to asthma and respiratory infection is solid. But the visible mould is a symptom — and the sprays, anti-mould paints and test kits sold to treat it leave the cause untouched.
US traffic deaths fell to 36,640 in 2025, the second-lowest rate on record. But among rear-seat occupants killed in crashes only 32% were belted, against 84% everyday use — and an unbelted passenger behind you is a danger to you.
Cooking causes more home fires than anything else, and unattended equipment is 37% of them. Meanwhile 57% of home fire deaths happen where the smoke alarm was missing or dead — and 43% of failures were batteries someone removed.
Exercise cuts falls by 23% at high certainty. Home modification cuts them 38% — but only for people already at risk. And in December 2024 the USPSTF recommended against vitamin D for fall prevention. What the Cochrane reviews actually found.
Full-scale fire experiments show a lithium-ion battery can charge quietly for hours, then go from first smoke to an unsurvivable room in about 30 seconds. What the data says about charging safely at home.
