Burns in a major burns center in East China from 2005 to 2014: Incidence and outcome.

•Children aged 2–5 and working-age adults were the most commonly injured.•Home was the commonest place of injury, followed by the workplace, outdoors, public buildings, and vehicle/roads.•Scald remained to be the primary reason, followed by fire, contact burns, electricity, and chemicals.•Extremities were the most commonly injured body region, followed by the trunk, face and hands.•Total mortality was 1.8% and the lethal area to 50% of the population was 96.46%TBSA.