About 4 people die skiing/Snowboarding per year on average. During the 2009/10 season, 38 fatalities occurred out of the 59.8 million skier/snowboarder days reported for the season. Twenty-five of the fatalities were skiers (18 male, 7 female) and 13 of the fatalities were snowboarders, (12 male, 1 female). Among the fatalities, 19 of those involved were reported as wearing a helmet at the time of the incident.
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during the past 10 years, about 39.8 people have died skiing/snowboarding per year on average
In the last 50 years only 6 people have died in the United States of ski jumping. This works out to an estimate of 12 in 100,000 participants in the sport.
In the United States, about 40 people on average are killed skiing or snowboarding each year, and about 45 serious injuries occur every year.