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These survival tips can encourage you avoid becoming just unusual statistic. Accidents are the leading cause of death along with U.S. men 18 to 50 years old, accounting for 37,000 of the roughly 148,000 annual fatalities. Some instances of unintended death, to use the certified term, are unavoidablewrong place, wrong timebut most aren't. Staying stir requires recognizing danger, feeling fear, and reacting. "We interpret uncovered cues through our monster bell centers agreed quickly," says Harvard University's David Ropeik, author of How dangerous Is It, Really? distress is, even smart, sober, experienced men can fail to register signals of an imminent threat. Here we gift 20 easy-to-miss risks, and how to avoid or survive them.
1. Outsmart Wildlife.
If you come face-to-face in the manner of a wild animal, the natural recognition is to bolt, but that can start the animal's predatory instinct. on July 6, 2011, Brian Matayoshi, 57, and his wife, Marylyn, 58, were hiking in Yellowstone National Park in the manner of they came on a grizzly bear and fled, screaming. Brian was bitten and clawed to death; Marylyn, who had stopped and crouched in back a tree, was approached by the bear but left unharmed.
STAT: Each year three to five people are killed in North America in wild animal attacks, primarily by sharks and bears.
DO: Avoid shark-infested waters, unless you are Andy Casagrande. As for bears, always carry repellent pepper spray can in the manner of hiking; it can stop a charging bear from as much as 30 feet away. To edit the risk of an attack, allow bears a unintended to acquire out of your way. "Try to stay in the open," says Larry Aumiller, bureaucrat of Alaska's McNeil River let pass Game Sanctuary. "If you have to pretend to have through thick brush, create noise by ovation and shouting." 2. Don't Mess in the manner of Vending Machines.
You skipped lunch. You compulsion a snack. You add up grant into a vending machine, press the buttons, and nothing comes out. You acquire mad.
STAT: Vending machines caused 37 deaths in the middle of 1978 and 1995, crushing customers who rocked and toppled the dispensers. No recent stats exist, but the machines are still a danger.
DON'T: Skip lunch.
3. Stay on the Dock.
On May 20, 2013, Kyle McGonigle was on a haven on Kentucky's prickly River Lake. A dog swimming friendly yelped, and McGonigle, 36, proverb that it was struggling to stay above water. He dove in to save the dog, but both he and the animal drowned, victims of electric-shock drowning (ESD). Cords plugged into an outlet on the haven had slipped into the water and electrified it.
STAT: The number of annual deaths from ESD in the U.S. are unknown, in the past they are counted along with all drownings. But anecdotal evidence shows that ESD is widespread. ESD prevention groups have successfully urged some states to execute safety standards, including the installation of ground-fault circuit interrupters and a central shutoff for a dock's electrical system.
DON'T: Swim within 100 yards of any wired dock. But complete check whether docks follow safety standards.
