Debunked's video: At What Height Does A Fall Become Fatal DEBUNKED

If you’re trapped high up in a deadly predicament with only a great fall as a means of escape, should you take your chances with fall damage? 👉 To try everything Brilliant has to offer for free for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/debunked/. You’ll also get 20% off an annual premium subscription. In certain, extreme situations it might be preferable to take your chances with fall damage rather than face an even greater and more immediate danger - fire, bullets, explosions! Join us as we investigate what sort of heights a person could fall from and and have a reasonable chance of survival? What is the maximum height you can jump? What is the maximum height you can fall and still survive? How high can you jump from without breaking a bone? How high can a human safely fall? Can you survive a 20 foot fall? What is the maximum height an adult human could fall from and safely land oh their feet? At what height do falls become deadly? How Far of a Fall Is Fatal? What height is considered a severe fall? At what height can you be injured in a fall? At what height do most falls occur? Why can't humans survive high falls? At what height do falls become fatal? At what height is a fall lethal? What fall height is survivable? What height are most fatal falls from? CHAPTERS: Common Falls What height are most fatal falls from? Terminal Velocity Newton's 2nd Law Of Motion Landing On Your Feet Landing On Objects / Cars How To Survive A Fall From Height CREDITS: Stu K - Researcher / Writer | Illustrator | Producer | Presenter Jacob T - Researcher | Writer Ross W - Illustrator | Editor | Animator Robin M - Guest VO MUSIC CREDITS Epidemic Sounds SOURCES World Health Organisation - Falls https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/falls OSHA - Focus Four https://www.osha.gov/training/outreach/construction/focus-four ‘Fatal Four’ https://www.tdi.texas.gov/tips/safety/oshafatal4.html “Terminal Velocity of a Human, Free Fall and Drag Force” https://owlcation.com/stem/Drag-Force-and-the-Terminal-Velocity-of-a-Human “Speed Skydiving” https://www.fai.org/page/isc-speed-skydiving Falls from height - The Health and Safety Executive https://www.hse.gov.uk/food/falls.htm What is Free Fall? A Quick Lesson in Physics - Head Rush Technologies https://headrushtech.com/blog/what-free-fall-quick-lesson-physics “Patterns and management of musculoskeletal injuries in attempted suicide by jumping from a height” - Vincenzo Giordano, Fabrício Santos E Santos, Celso Prata, Ney Pecegueiro do Amaral, European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32936309/ “Factors affecting mortality caused by falls from height” https://jag.journalagent.com/travma/pdfs/UTD_19_6_529_535.pdf “Rise in Deaths Due to Fall from Height: A 3-Year Retrospective Study” - Naveen Kumar T, Jagannatha S.R, V.T.Venkatesha - Associate Professors, Professor & HOD, Department of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Kempegowda Institute of Medical Sciences, Bangalore, India https://ijop.net/index.php/mlu/article/view/753/707 “Effect of Height of Fall on Mortality in Patients with Fall Accidents: A Retrospective Cross-Sectional Study” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7312001/ “Vertical deceleration trauma. Principles of management” - R F Buckman Jr, P D Buckman https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2003254/ “Survival following a vertical free fall from 300 feet: The crucial role of body position to impact surface” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3212924/ “Falls from height: injury and mortality” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22860503/ “Falls from height: A retrospective analysis” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5717375/ “Risk of dying after a free fall from height” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0379073895018859 “How do some people survive falls from great heights?” https://www.livescience.com/health/how-do-some-people-survive-falls-from-great-heights “How Far Can You Fall and Still Survive?” https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/63088/how-far-can-you-fall-and-still-survive “How High is Deadly?” https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/53767 “How Far of a Fall Is Fatal?” https://www.arnolditkin.com/blog/work-accidents/how-far-of-a-fall-is-fatal-/