Editor’s note: Please watch your equipment to prevent children from playing with or around it, and getting hurt. This not only saves your conscience, but also your wallet due to liability claims.
Lawn mowers are a surprisingly common culprit for adolescent injury in the U.S., sending 13 kids a day to seek emergency treatment, a new study finds.
Researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Ohio obtained this figure from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), a database that is both operated and maintained by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Although the prevalence of lawn mower-related injuries among kids has decreased from decades past, it is clear that their potential to harm is often overlooked.
The most common injuries afflicted by lawn mowers were found to be cuts (39 percent) and burns (15 percent). Hands were the most common region to be injured, followed by legs, feet and toes.
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