FINAL REPORT ALL TEAMS COMBINED CATASTROPHIC INJURIES 1989-2006* YEAR FATALITIES DISABILITY RECOVER PARTICIPATION INJ RATE 1989 1 3 1 3,209,255 0.16 1990 2 3 1 3,361,505 0.18 1991 4 1 0 3,946,043 0.13 1992 1 1 0 4,221,803 0.05 1993 2 1 3 4,366,899 0.14 1994 2 1 3 4,489,186 0.13 1995 3 4 1 4,615,472 0.17 1996 1 0 0 4,677,524 0.02 1997 3 3 2 4,734,999 0.17 1998 1 1 3 4,286,032 0.12 1999 1 3 2 5,369,136 0.11 2000 4 0 0 5,681,345 0.07 2001 3 0 4 5,575,830 0.13 2002 1 1 0 4,834,788 0.04 2003 3 0 7 4,844,500 0.21 2004 2 1 1 4,948,795 0.08 2005 5 2 1 4,753,880 0.17 2006 0 1 1 4,770,884 0.04 TOTAL 39 26 30 82,687,876 0.11 * PARTICIPATION NUMBERS ARE APPROXIMATIONS * INJ RATES = NUMBER OF INJURIES PER 100,000 PARTICIPANTS INJURY RATES CHANGED FROM 1993 REPORT DUE TO THE FACT THAT NON-BASEBALL INJURIES (AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS) WERE DELETED FROM THE DATA.