As it turns out, the state you’re in may determine where you get hurt. At least, these are the findings of a research conducted by Amivo.
Amivo, analyzed the electronic insurance claims data from 2012 to 2016, and developed an interesting graphic that illustrates the most common injuries in every US state.
Here’s the graphic and the full list of findings (right after the picture): (the article continues after the ad)
Full results:
- Alabama: Unspecified chest injury
- Alaska: Sprained knee
- Arkansas: Motor vehicle accident
- Arizona: Motor vehicle accident
- California: Motor vehicle accident
- Colorado: Suffocation
- Connecticut: Sprained back
- Washington D.C.: Unspecified facial injury
- Delaware: Rotator cuff sprain
- Florida: Unspecified head injury
- Georgia: Motor vehicle accident
- Hawaii: ScrapeIowa: Unspecified arm injury
- Idaho: Suffocation
- Illinois: Unspecified facial injury
- Indiana: Struck by object
- Kansas: Insect bite
- Kentucky: Fall
- Louisiana: Unspecified facial injury
- Massachusetts: Concussion
- Maryland: Sprained hand
- Maine: Broken ankle
- Michigan: Unspecified hand injury
- Minnesota: Spine dislocation
- Missouri: Animal bite
- Mississippi: Unspecified chest injury
- Montana: Sprained knee
- North Carolina: Insect bite
- North Dakota: Overexertion
- Nebraska: Overexertion
- New Hampshire: Sprained knee
- New Jersey: Sprained hand
- New Mexico: Suffocation
- Nevada: Suffocation
- New York: Unspecified knee injury
- Ohio: Sprained back
- Oklahoma: Rotator cuff sprain
- Oregon: Sprained back
- Pennsylvania: Unspecified chest injury
- Rhode Island: Sprained neck
- South Carolina: Unspecified chest injury
- South Dakota: Spine dislocation
- Tennessee: Motor vehicle accident
- Texas: Insect bite
- Utah: Suffocation
- Virginia: Insect bite
- Vermont: Spine dislocation
- Washington: Spine dislocation
- Wisconsin: Spine dislocation
- West Virginia: Unspecified back injury
- Wyoming: Suffocation
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Sources: The most disproportionately common injury in every state
