Off-the-Job Safety: Keeping Kids Safe Around Lawnmowers
While mowing the lawn might seem like a harmless summer routine, the lawnmower is one of the most dangerous household tools. Some 68,000 people – 9,400 of them children – visit the emergency room each year for lawnmower-related injuries, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Most childhood injuries due to lawnmowers involve riding mowers, and most are injured in their own yard. The most common injuries associated with mowers include lacerations, amputations, fractures, infections and skin defects.
