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Good news for Californians! According to data collected, skiing and snowboarding, popular sports in California, maintain an excellent safety record.  While one cannot deny there is an inherent risk in any sport including skiing and snowboarding, this sport remains less dangerous that many other local high energy sports.  The National Ski Area Association often publishes safety statistics to determine safety ratios, crunch the typical risk of fatality and injury and determine the amount of  skier vs. skier fatalities that exist.  Using data from the 2011/2012 season they reported 54 fatalities out of 51.0 million skiers and snowboarders who participated in the sport that year. Of those fatalities, thirty-nine of the fatalities were skiers and twelve were snowboards.  Of the fatalities involving skiers, thirty-three of the fatalities were men and six were female. Of the fatalities involving snowboarders, ten of the fatalities involved males and two were female.    The data indicates fatalities skew towards men with 85% of  the fatalities being males between the age of 15-30 years old.  This age and sex group is the same group that data often indicates as being most involved in high risk behavior in other arenas.  The use of helmets by those mortally injured was about 36% of the group.  Based on these figures, the fatality rate is considered low. In other words,  approximately 1.06 per million skier/snowboarder visits.

Fatalities were most often noted on intermediate courses and typically involved a high rate of speed.  While snowboards are seen in the same number, or even greater number, than their skier  counterparts, the data does not indicate that their presence has made the slopes less safe.

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