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Tips for Preventing Lawn Mowing Accidents in MO

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Tuesday, July 27, 2010   

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - For some Missouri children, mowing the lawn can be a regular summer activity, but it can be one with tragic consequences. The American Academy of Pediatrics estimates that 9,000 people under the age of 18 are treated in emergency rooms around the country each year with lawn mower-related injuries.

Dr.Richard Schwend, professor of orthopedic surgery with Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics, says a Missouri family is learning the hard way that an injury from a lawn mower accident can be devastating, after their young son fell off a riding mower and suffered an amputation.

"What was going to turn into kind of a happy summer becomes an agonizing experience for the child, because of the loss of the limb. There's the guilt that the family has to get through. It's just a painful situation for the child to go through."

Dr. Schwend says the most common injury he sees involves a young child who's fallen from a riding lawn mower while sitting with an adult. He says those types of injuries result in multiple painful reconstructive surgeries.

"That's just the beginning of it, because now the child has an amputation that's going to require physical therapy, going to require prosthetic fitting."

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no child under 16 should be on a riding lawnmower, no child under 12 should operate a push mower, and small children should always stay indoors when someone is mowing.

For more safety tips, go to www.aap.org




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