WASHINGTON: Television sets injure one child every 30 minutes in America, and the rate of emergency room visits is increasing with the popularity of flat-screen TVs, a study said Monday.
Just over half (52 percent) of all TV injuries for those under 18 from 1990 to 2011 were due to the equipment falling and hitting the patient, said the study in the journal Pediatrics.
The number of falling TV injuries was 5,455 in 1990, but that more than doubled to 12,300 in 2011, the study said.
The next most common category was the patient striking a TV (38 percent), but those injuries dropped 68 percent over the 22-year study period.
Most injuries were not serious, and only 2.6 percent required hospital admission.
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