How safe is paintball?
This might be a surprise, but based on NEISS government studies, Paintball is the safest sport around. Less than one in 4000 people playing paintball ends up having to go to the doctor in a year due to a paintball related injury, compared to over 100 injured in baseball. The Neiss study includes injuries like sprained ankles from running around in the brush and heat stroke, by far the most common injuries in paintball. Most of the injuries that do occur in paintball are because of people playing with friends somewhere other than a paintball park. When you’re at a paintball park, you have rules that are enforced by trained refs as well as top notch safety gear. At a park all the markers (paintball guns) are typically chronographed to make sure they aren’t shooting hot, or in other words, shooting the paintballs too fast. Often when people aren’t playing at a park, rules aren’t enforced and paintballs are moving much faster then they need to be, causing more pain than needed. Bottom line
