Saturday, March 01, 2008

Rise in nursery product injuries

From the Wall Street Journal article:

Nursery products were involved in 66,400 injuries that sent children to emergency rooms in 2006, an 11% increase from the year earlier, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.

The agency said in a report yesterday that the number of injuries to infants and children under age five involving cribs, high chairs, walkers and other items rose by 6,600 from 59,800 in 2005.

Click here to access the article (sub. req.).

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