This easy to use online tool allows you to find helpful information on telecare services that could help you live independently at home for longer. Home Healthy living Preventing falls Dealing with a fall What to do if you fall. What to do if you fall. Checking for injuries The first thing you need to do after a fall is work out if you're hurt. Take a few minutes to check your body for any pain or injuries, then: if you're not hurt, try to get up from the floor if you're hurt or unable to get off the floor, call for help and keep warm and moving as best you can while you wait Getting up from a fall If you're not hurt and feel well enough, you could try to get up from the floor.
The best way will differ from person to person, but as a guide, you can: Roll onto your side. Push yourself up to a side sitting position. Slowly get onto your hands and knees. Crawl towards a sturdy piece of furniture that can support you to get up — such as a solid chair or sofa. Kneel side-on to the chair or sofa with your strongest leg next to it, then slide the foot of your strongest leg forward so that it's flat on the floor. Your other knee should remain on the floor.
Put both hands on the chair or sofa. Raise and turn your body, pushing through your hands and foot until your bottom is safely on the chair or sofa. Sit for a few minutes before you try to do anything else and check again for injuries. Find out more about telecare services using the Telecare Self-check tool To improve your confidence and technique, it's a good idea to practice getting up from a fall in different rooms of your house and using different types of sturdy furniture for support.
Calling for help You should call for help if you're hurt as attempting to get up could make your injury worse. To call for help: use a community alarm, if you have one use a phone to call a relative, friend or neighbour. If you're injured, phone and ask for an ambulance.
Keeping warm After calling for help, it's important to keep warm as you may be at risk of developing hypothermia To keep warm: Move onto a carpet, rug or other soft surface. Hard surfaces like tiles and stone floors are often colder and take longer to warm up.
If you have to empty your bladder while you're on the floor, move away from the wet area. Reach for a nearby duvet cover, blanket or clothing that you can use to cover yourself. Move away from areas where there's a draft. Keep your body moving. If you're with someone, ask them to put the heating on or make you a hot drink.
Disintegration from falling is much less likely. Longer answer: It is certainly true that people can pass out from a variety of things.
In this case, if someone were to pass out from falling from a great height, it is more likely to be caused by their realization that they are going to hit the ground with enough force to cause serious injury or death. People who land on their head almost always die, even if it was just from a few stories.
A fall from a second story window takes only seconds so you must act quickly. People usually survive falls from a height of feet meters , but above that, things get very deadly very fast. How about feet? A more recent study on vertical fall victims revealed that falls from height of 8 stories i. Humans generally bounce. Think of it like an aggressive slam. If the thousand foot fall was terminated by a body of water, you would die just as quickly as if you had hit a solid object.
Just think about flying, parachuting, and bungee jumping — they all send us falling just as fast but no injury comes of them as long as we decelerate slowly. So, does that mean that the height doesn't make much of a difference?
It's true that it's the impact that causes injury or fatality. But since higher falls have greater impact, they also have a higher potential for injury or death. The fatality statistics vary from year to year, but there seems to be a significant fatality rate increase after the foot threshold. The Center for Construction Research states that:. After that, the numbers start to decrease.
But that doesn't mean that workers are more likely to survive a fall from a greater height. What probably accounts for the distribution is that work at height is typically done at elevations between 10 and 20 feet. So, naturally, that's where the greater proportion of fatalities occur.
Heights over 30 feet also account for a large percentage of fall fatalities Moreover, since the researchers have determined only the percentage of fatalities for each height but did not record how many falls from the same heights have not resulted in a fatality it is difficult to say whether any particular height is deadlier than another. These studies put a numerical value on a fact we have discussed at the beginning of this answer: the severity of an injury and probability of death increases with height.
While it's generally true that the longer the fall, the higher the probability that it will be fatal, there are also other variables that can dictate the outcome.
These include:. Fall protection is required for anyone who is at risk of falling from more than 10 feet. That's the height at which falls become noticeably more dangerous.
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