Home Safety Month: By the numbers
Did you know that more people are injured from hand tools than power tools?
According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, more people injure themselves when working with hammers and utility knives than with power saws and drills. The most common tool-related injury is striking one’s own fingers with a hammer.
That's one of the 30 home and home improvement facts collected by the American Association for Retired People (AARP) for June, Home Safety Month. The group has put together a list of 30 home safety tips, many of which can be good to know on the sales floor of a hardware store.
Other information from the list:
• Trying to charge non-rechargeable batteries is extremely unsafe; • Poison ivy is getting more potent and harder to identify; • Power mower injuries cause 80, 000 hospital visits each year; • Most falls in homes happen in the bathroom, not on the stairs; and • A sharp knife is safer than a dull one.