Which one has sent more Americans to hospital in the last twenty years: every chain saw in the country, or shoes?
About ninety American hospitals write down what hurt you. 7,326,429 people since 2005.
Chain saws, 10,588.
Shoes, 72,172.
10,588 people in twenty years.
72,172. Seven chain saws.
153,927, which is fifteen chain saws.
593,336. Fifty-six chain saws.
Stairs, floors, beds, basketball, bicycles, football, chairs, doors, walls, knives.
One of them is sharp.
One line per room. Left to right is how old you were. Higher up means more people. Each line is stretched to its own tallest point, so the shapes line up.
It starts at ten. Two-year-olds fall over so much that leaving them in squashes all seven lines into one corner.
The only line here that never turns back up.
Everyone on this line climbed the ladder on purpose.
The bedroom, the bathroom and the floor all peak at eighty-five. Getting into bed was never the problem.
Up from ten to eighty-five with no dip in the middle at all. Every other line here turns over somewhere.
The flattest line on the chart. Twenty-four, forty, sixty, eighty, all much the same. The staircase doesn't have a type.
Shade in the last third of a life. Everyone the kitchen loses turns up in the bathroom, the bedroom and the floor.
89.5% went home the same day. Tripped on a rug, three stitches, a bit embarrassing.
Then the rooms swap round. Twenty-year-olds are in the kitchen, fifty-year-olds are in the shed, and after sixty-five it's the floor.
Over 65, one in four gets admitted. Under 65 it's one in twenty-three.
About one a week, on whatever the data turns up.