Paintball safety is extremely important!  Paintball is actually one of the safest sports being played today.  I believe this is in part due to the self governing of players.  We follow the safety rules and if we don't, we are told by fellow players to fix the problem.  There are always those few who think they funny or cute and do something stupid and unsafe.  If those individuals want to continue unsafe practices, they will be asked to leave the game or I simply will not play with them! 

I am going to break this subject down into a couple of seperate blogs rather than make one huge one that most people will not read the whole thing.  I do want to add information that was collected in 2001 by the The National Injury Information Clearinghouse of
the U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in Washington D. C.

They collected statistics on sports injuries and other activites.  These were injuries that were treated at emergency rooms in hospital.  They also included heat exhaustion and heat stroke.  I am sure that these numbers have changed somewhat due to the huge increase in people playing paintball. Below is the information they collected.