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Preventing Furniture Accidents |
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St. Peters — The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission estimates that in 2005 at least 3,000 children younger than 5 were treated in U.S. hospital emergency rooms because of injuries associated with TV tip-overs. 8,000 to 10,000 people — mostly children — each year go to the emergency room with injuries from furniture tipping over, and about six are killed.
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Burn Awareness Week February 3rd-9th |
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 As the president proclaims National Burn Awareness Week (February 3-9), Safe Kids St. Charles County reminds parents and caregivers that fire is just one cause of burn injuries - children can also be seriously injured by hot liquids, heating appliances, hot pots and pans, electrical currents and chemicals.
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 Approximately 2,300 children in the United States, ages 14 and under, died from accidental injuries in the home in 2004, and 3.4 million kids are treated in emergency rooms for accidental injuries occurring at home. Most fatal injuries at home are caused by suffocation, fire and burns, drowning, choking, falls, poisoning or firearms discharged unintentionally.
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