Original question: "What was the nature of your injury or injuries? Please select all that apply."
The focus of data collection was in the United States (1,460) and United Kingdom (356); a smaller number of respondents came from other EU-countries (151), China (97), Japan (59), and other countries worldwide (237).
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Personal injury types sustained during laboratory work 2012
This statistic is based on a survey and it depicts the types of personal injuries sustained during laboratory work as of 2012, in selected countries . Some ** percent of the responding researchers stated that they had sustained a needle stick during their laboratory work.
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