The 6 billion annual accident claims industry is big business in the United Kingdom. It includes claims for falls, for accidents that occur in workplaces, for negligence by medical staff or hospitals and a host of others.

But while accidents where someone else is liable are fairly common, they’re nowhere near as common as the accidents where the only liability falls to ourselves! Yes, we’re a clumsy bunch it seems.

The Home and Leisure Accidents stats figures are a great insight into what is causing our accidents and where they’re happening. It breaks annual incident totals into age, gender, location of accident, body part injured and objects involved! It’s rather a comprehensive database.

Some of the statistics within the Home and Leisure Accidents database are, to say the least, a little bit odd. Back in 2002, for example, a total of 24,641 people managed to injure themselves with “an uninjured body part.” That is to say, they injured themselves with themselves.

You would be forgiven for visualising slapstick style scenes with someone tripping over their own feet, hitting themselves in the face with their arm or treading on their right foot with their left. The real pity is that this database fails to give any further information about any of the cases. It’s a terrible shame that there are no in depth accounts (with accompanying images or videos, of course) because that would certainly make for hours of entertainment.

And while accidents are, generally speaking, no laughing matter, in our compensation culture, I think it’s acceptable to enjoy a laugh at some of these more comedic capers. It’s actually fairly refreshing to hear of calamities like this, providing they don’t end in serious injury, of course!

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