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released: 17 Apr 2007 author: AIHW National Injury Surveillance Unit

This Briefing provides an overview of hospitalisations and deaths occurring as a result of electrical injury or exposure to lightning. Serious electrical injuries are relatively infrequent and injuries occurring as a result of lightning are extremely rare events. Over the two year period 2002-03 to 2003-04 only 1,493 people were hospitalised as a result of an electrical injury at an age-adjusted rate of 3.78 cases per 100,000 population. Deaths occurring as a result of electrical injury or lightning are even rarer with 162 cases in the four years examined (2001-04).

ISSN 1833-024X; Cat. no. INJ 99; 15pp.; INTERNET ONLY

Recommended citation

AIHW National Injury Surveillance Unit 2007. Electrical injury and death. NISU briefing no. 9. Cat. no. INJ 99. Canberra: AIHW. Viewed 13 January 2013 <http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication-detail/?id=6442467963>.