At the top of this pyramid, number one represents a death or major property loss. ... roughly 1,000 treatable injuries and roughly 10,000 near misses. View Image Gallery .

In this light, it is critically important to study near-misses—accidents that never happen because trained and concerned persons are on the scene, a serious safety program is in place or just ...

In Heinrich’s model, the near-miss incidents are the bottom of a pyramid, ... But when they compared prior accident and near-miss data from 64 airlines over a 17-year stretch, ...