i knew there was a reason i subscribed to the CDC's morbidity & mortality weekly report, and this just clinches it. hint: the title includes the words wood chippers.
All decedents were male; mean age at death was 35 years (range: <20--60 years). Of these deaths, 12 (39%) occurred among persons aged 25--34 years. Seventeen (55%) occurred in the agriculture, forestry, and fishing industry, and seven (23%) occurred in the manufacturing industry. Twenty-one (68%) were the result of being caught or compressed by the chipper, and nine (29%) were the result of being struck by the machine or a machine part. Thirteen (42%) of the fatally injured workers were groundskeepers, and five (16%) were machine operators, assemblers, and inspectors. The remaining were classified as managers, forest conservation specialists, farm workers, carpenters, cutters/welders, miscellaneous machine operators, and construction and nonconstruction laborers. Approximately one third of the events occurred in July or August. Of 26 cases among persons for whom ethnicity was known, seven (27%) were among Hispanics. Societal costs of all chipper-related fatalities (primary source code 3231) for 1992--2001 are estimated at $28.5 million in 2003 dollars (CDC, unpublished data, 2004§). [emphasis mine]two-thirds of all (accidental) wood-chipper-related deaths in the last two decades were the result of people being (accidentally) wood-chipped. yeek!
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