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    COMPARATIVE RISK OF DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES

    Estimates of Fatal Risk


     
                                                  fatalities
      Activity                                per million hrs 
      --------                                ---------------
      Skydiving                                     128.71
      General Aviation                               15.58
      On-road Motorcycling                            8.80
      Scuba Diving                                    1.98
      Living (all causes of death)                    1.53
      Swimming                                        1.07
      Snowmobiling                                     .88
      Passenger cars                                   .47
      Water skiing                                     .28
      Bicycling                                        .26
      Flying (scheduled domestic airlines)             .15
      Hunting                                          .08
      Cosmic Radiation from transcontinental flights   .035
      Home Living (active)                             .027
      Traveling in a School Bus                        .022
      Passenger Car Post-collision fire                .017
      Home Living, active & passive (sleeping)         .014
      Residential Fire                                 .003
    
    

    Compiled by Failure Analysis Associates, Inc. (Design News, 10-4-93)

March 1998
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