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Accidental Injury Becomes #3 Cause of Death for First Time in U.S. History
January 17, 2018
ITASCA, Illinois, Jan. 17 -- The National Safety Council issued the following news release:

Unintentional, preventable injuries - commonly known as "accidents" - claimed a record high 161,374 lives in 2016 to become the third leading cause of death in the United States for the first time in recorded history, according to National Safety Council data analysis. Based on this new data, an American is accidentally injured every second and killed every three minutes by a preven . . .

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