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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
I wouldn't doubt that hunting has a low injury rate. It's the death rate that concerns me. How do deaths by golf club compare with deaths by hunting firearm?
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Quick internet searching on reveals data on occupational safety hazards of working at a golf course, and I cannot find actual # of people killed. Just workers alone accounts for 15-20 deaths per year. Another 15 golfers or so are killed by golf clubs or golf balls, and another golfers 5 by golf carts, golfers are also at fairly high risk of getting killed by lightning, an average of 5 lightning deaths a year over from 1960-1995. Health issues aside its probably about 30-45 deaths directly resulting from the sport of golf a year if you lump in the workers and the golfers.
Hunting deaths, most searches bring up USA/Canada combined, but it looks like somewhere around 80-100 per year in the USA. I do not know how many of those are health related. As for Golf, its about 650 deaths per year while golfing, with the majority of those being health related.