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When do we break which bone?

The median age of the people who turn up at a US emergency room with each broken bone. Children break their forearms (median age 11); by the hips, spine and thigh the typical patient is in their seventies.

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Data: US Consumer Product Safety Commission, National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), 2024 case file: 60,161 fracture cases weighted to 2.37 million emergency-room visits. Left and right are not recorded separately, so both sides share one value. Played as puzzles in Shade.

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