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UCRL-3644
Table II
Statistical distribution of lifetime shortening by travel and industrial accidents. (Calculation based on Vital Statistics of 1949, values for adult white
males 20 years and older. )
All accidental deaths
-2. 3 yr per individual in U.S.A.
Travel Accidents
Accidents involving railways
-0. 06 yr per individual in U.S.A.
Accidents involving ships
-0. 04 yr per individual in U.S.A.
Motor-vehicle accidents involving
driver and passengers
-Q. 67 yr per individual in U.S.A.
Assuming only half of population spends
appreciable time in automobiles
-l, 3 yr per individual at risk
Pedestrian motor-<vehicle accidents
--0. 2 yr per individual in U.5.A.
Assuming this effect largely involves
the urban portion of the population
"-O. 4 yr per individual at risk
Aircraft accidents
-Q. 05 yr per individual in U.S.A.
Assuming that 1/4 of the population
(actually, probably much less) uses
airplanes
-Q. 2 yr per individual at risk
Accidents Involving Industrial Machinery
Assuming only 30% of males are employed using industrial machines
-Q. 04 yr per individual in U.S.A.
~O. 27 yr per individual at risk
These values are based upon numbers of deaths attributed to accidents; the
estimates of life span lost are actually perhaps slightly low because survivors
who are maimed, and hence have reduced life expectancy, are not included
in these estimates.