Real Injury Lawyer Reveals the 10 ‘Final Destination’ Accidents Most Likely to Happen to YOU!

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 25th anniversary of the Final Destination franchise, with brand new sixth installment Final Destination Bloodlines bringing the franchise back to theaters this coming May for this first time in fourteen long years. The new movie is guaranteed to give us a whole new batch of terrifying dangers to worry about, and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

But which iconic Final Destination deaths/accidents are most likely to happen in real life? Just a few years back, Downtown LA Law, one of LA’s leading personal injury law firms, analyzed data from more than 300,000 ER visits to answer that very question! 

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.”

Here are the 10 most common Final Destination-related injuries, along with the number of real life occurrences from a recently recorded year in the United States*…

1. Ladder-related injury (Final Destination 2 – eye gouged out by a falling fire escape ladder) – 4,162
2. Scaling/moving fences (Final Destination 5 – cut in half by a metal fence) – 2,121
3. Lifting weights (Final Destination 3 – crushed by weights) – 930
4. Scalded with oil – (Final Destination 5 – oil truck spill) – 335
5. Lawn Mower accidents – (The Final Destination – rock shot through eye socket by a lawn mower) – 229
6. Escalator malfunctions/trips (The Final Destination – caught in escalator gears) – 211
7. Shot with a nail gun (Final Destination 3 – shot by a nail gun) – 160
8. Roller coasters accidents (Final Destination 3 – roller coaster crash) – 14
9. Barbecue burns (Final Destination 2 – barbecue explosion) – 10
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.

*Downtown LA Law’s study was originally published in March 2022, and at the time they had noted that this particular injury data was from “the last recorded year in the U.S.”

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