A method and system is provided to access one or more historical incident
databases, for example, CDC, CPSC, DTI, AAPCC and the like, for
standardizing the potentially differing categories and coding among the
databases. The standardizing includes recoding of the categories by
providing a unified set of categories reflective of similar categories
found among the one or more databases, if any. Submission of search
queries allows users to obtain unified data across the databases so that
incident history statistics for one or more products tracked by commonly
available databases may be easily acquired. The resulting reports and
statistics may be used by various entities to understand historical
incidents from multiple perspectives including, for example, injury and
fatality statistics as a function of age group, type of injury, time
periods, diagnosis, injury outcome, severity, and the like. Data may be
presented in standardized formats or in any of the native database
formats.