Accidents are the leading cause of death in children aged 1 to 14 years. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in 2014, 3,857 deaths were caused by unintentional injuries in children among this age group. Unintentional drowning and unintentional motor vehicle traffic were the two main causes of unintentional injury deaths. The leading causes of death in young children, such as auto accidents, drowning, suffocation, falls, dog bites, poisoning, and fires are all incidences that could have been prevented from occurring in the first place. This leads to the question of negligence. Negligence, in personal injury law, is the failure to

In the US, 34 dog bite-related fatalities were reported in 2015. Although it is regulated in most Military Housing areas and in over 700 cities across the US, there still has been a number of deaths due to dog bites in the country. Violent dogs going after nonviolent dogs is terrible as well. Reports suggest that pit bulls contributed to 82% of these deaths. About 6.6% of the total dog population in the country is made up of pit bulls. In 2015, pit bulls and Rottweilers, the second most lethal breed of dog, together accounted for 91% of the total recorded deaths. No dog bite

Drowning is the 5th most common cause of unintentional injury, death in the United States. About 10 deaths are caused by unintentional drowning every day. From 2005 to 2014, an average of 3,536 fatal unintentional non-boating related drownings occurred annually in the country, which accounts for about 10 deaths per day. In addition, there were 332 deaths from drowning in boating-related incidents. About 1 in 5 who die from drowning are children aged 14 and younger. Who is liable in a drowning accident? When injuries occur at swimming pools, the pool owner — whether it is at a private residence or a public park —

According to the US Mine Safety and Health Administration, there were 16 fatal coal-mining accidents across the United States in 2014. In 2013, there were 123,227 miners and 20 coal mining deaths, for a fatality rate of 0.1623 deaths per 1,000 miners. The US Mine Safety and Health Administration also reported that there were 28 deaths caused work-related accidents in mines in 2015. Of those 28 deaths, 11 occurred at coal mines and 17 took place at other types of mines or quarries. There is less mining going on now because of regulations which means less jobs and higher energy costs for Americans (less coal