Across five films, the Final Destination franchise treated us to some of the most memorable moments of brutality in horror history, from the opening highway disaster in Final Destination 2 to the gruesome destruction of a gymnast’s body in Final Destination 5 that still lives rent-free inside my brain. The franchise made it clear that something horrible can happy to any of us at any time, whether we’re lounging in a tanning bed, swimming in a pool, or taking a shower.
When Death has a desire to take you… well… there’s just no stopping it.
This year marks the 22nd anniversary of the Final Destination franchise, and Bloody Disgusting has just been sent an interesting report from Downtown LA Law, one of LA’s leading personal injury law firms. “By analyzing data from more than 300,000 ER visits,” the injury law firm has been able to figure out the Final Destination deaths/accidents most likely to happen in real life.
For starters, “it was discovered that injuries sustained from ladders were the top Final Destination injuries, followed by scaling a fence and weight training.”
Meanwhile, “Tanning bed injuries were named as the least frequent Final Destination injury, with one tanning bed-related injury reported in the United States.”
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Here are the 10 most common Final Destination-related injuries, along with the number of real life occurrences from the last recorded year in the United States…
- Ladder-related injury (Final Destination 2 – eye gouged out by a falling fire escape ladder) – 4,162
- Scaling/moving fences (Final Destination 5 – cut in half by a metal fence) – 2,121
- Lifting weights (Final Destination 3 – crushed by weights) – 930
- Scolded with oil – (Final Destination 5 – oil truck spill) – 335
- Lawn Mower accidents – (The Final Destination – rock shot through eye socket by a lawn mower) – 229
- Escalator malfunctions/trips (The Final Destination – caught in escalator gears) – 211
- Shot with a nail gun (Final Destination 3 – shot by a nail gun) – 160
- Roller coasters accidents (Final Destination 3 – roller coaster crash) – 14
- Barbecue burns (Final Destination 2 – barbecue explosion) – 10
- Tanning bed burns (Final Destination 3 – tanning bed set on fire) – 1
Farid Yaghoubtil, Senior Trial Attorney at Downtown L.A Law Group, says, “When looking for film franchises which highlight the wacky and strange ways people can get injured, you don’t need to look any further than Final Destination. Delving into the deaths across the entirety of the franchise though, even I was surprised at just how creative and imaginative the teams working on the films had been. The purpose of the research was to establish how, even though a lot of the casualties in the films are very strange, being injured is something that can happen at any time, and can also happen in extremely unusual circumstances. Looking at the NEISS data, this is certainly true – our hope is that the research will remind people to take care of themselves in every situation.”
Head over to Downtown LA Law for a full breakdown of all the data.
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