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Festive Injuries
During Christmas, your home is likely to be full of people and accidents can easily happen.
Christmas Day accidents include parents accidentally stabbing themselves with scissors, which they've used to make up toys, instead of using a screwdriver.
The tree, normally while fixing stars, lights or other decorations to the higher branches, injures about 1,000 people.
Use a stepladder to put up the decorations. Buy the right size tree so you don't have to cut the top off and risk cutting yourself.
Make sure toddlers and babies don't pull the lights off the tree and electrocute themselves.
Around 350 people a year are hurt by Christmas tree lights. Injuries include people falling while putting them up, children swallowing the bulbs, and people getting electric shocks and burns from faulty lights.
Test your lights and the wiring before you put them up, as they can deteriorate over the years. If you have old lights, buy new ones that meet higher safety standards and don’t overload sockets, as that’s a fire risk.
About 1,000 people a year are hurt when decorating their homes. Children bite into glass baubles and adults fall while using unstable chairs instead of ladders to put up streamers, or fall out of lofts while looking for the decorations.
Gracie Timms
During Christmas, your home is likely to be full of people and accidents can easily happen.
Christmas Day accidents include parents accidentally stabbing themselves with scissors, which they've used to make up toys, instead of using a screwdriver.
The tree, normally while fixing stars, lights or other decorations to the higher branches, injures about 1,000 people.
Use a stepladder to put up the decorations. Buy the right size tree so you don't have to cut the top off and risk cutting yourself.
Make sure toddlers and babies don't pull the lights off the tree and electrocute themselves.
Around 350 people a year are hurt by Christmas tree lights. Injuries include people falling while putting them up, children swallowing the bulbs, and people getting electric shocks and burns from faulty lights.
Test your lights and the wiring before you put them up, as they can deteriorate over the years. If you have old lights, buy new ones that meet higher safety standards and don’t overload sockets, as that’s a fire risk.
About 1,000 people a year are hurt when decorating their homes. Children bite into glass baubles and adults fall while using unstable chairs instead of ladders to put up streamers, or fall out of lofts while looking for the decorations.
Gracie Timms
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