"injury" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Casualties is sometimes loosely used or (mis)understood to mean fatalities, but non-fatal injuries are also casualties.
- Suppose a pregnant woman is shot in her abdomen and the bullet hits the fetus, causing a non-fatal injury.
- Twenty-two (22) fatalities were reported and around a hundred more suffered non-fatal injuries.
- Twenty-six persons sustained non-fatal injuries; eleven of these were injured seriously enough to require hospital treatment.
- In 2008, over 16 million cases of non-fatal violence-related injuries were severe enough to require medical attention.
- Statistically valid data comparing non-fatal injuries among cities are not available because no agency keeps such numbers.
- Over the last eight years the Commission has on record some 18 fatalities from the use of these products and some 56 non-fatal injuries.
- Fifteen people aboard Flight 575 suffered non-fatal injuries.
- The study's researchers said the sample size might be too small to capture an increase in deaths, which are less common than accidents that involve non-fatal injuries.
- Falls are one of the most common causes of fatal and non-fatal injuries among construction workers.
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