Table 4 Mechanism of injury and cause of incident for each climbing discipline
From: Patterns of traumatic outdoor rock-climbing injuries in Sweden between 2008 and 2019
Bouldering | Sport climbing | Traditional climbing | Surrounding activity | Top rope/ clogging | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n (%) | Mean (SD) | n (%) | Mean (SD) | n (%) | Mean (SD) | n (%) | N (%) | Mean (SD) | n (%) | Mean (SD) | ||
Mechanism of injury | Roped fall | 0 (0) | 11 (84) | 7 (100) | 6 (100) | 3 (100) | 27 (71) | |||||
Bouldering fall | 8 (89) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 8 (21) | ||||||
Struck by falling object/person | 0 (0) | 1 (8) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 1 (3) | ||||||
Other mechanism of injury | 1 (11) | 1 (8) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 2 (5) | ||||||
Total | 9 (100) | 13 (100) | 7 (100) | 6 (100) | 3 (100) | 38 (100) | ||||||
Cause of incident | Error rope management climber | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 5 (83) | 0 (0) | 5 (13) | |||||
Grip falls off | 1 (11) | 0 (0) | 1 (14) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 2 (5) | ||||||
Fall | 8 (89) | 9 (69) | 6 (86) | 1 (17) | 3 (100) | 27 (71) | ||||||
Error rope management belayer | 0 (0) | 4 (31) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 4 (11) | ||||||
Total | 9 (100) | 13 (100) | 7 (100) | 6 (100) | 3(100) | 38 (100) | ||||||
Grade UIAA metric | 8.0 (±0.9) | 7.3 (±1.1) | 6.8 (±1) | 6.2 (±0.2) | 7.0 (±1.2) | |||||||