Elf And Safety At Christmas

This time of the rolling year is about family, friends and inhaling your own body weight in cake but but for a few unfortunate individuals, Christmas is like a scene from National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation as Accident & Emergency is chock full of people having a little Christmas accident.
In Switzerland over the past decade, 4 people have died and 28 Swiss citizens ended up getting bandages for Christmas after setting fire to their trees but in Britain a study found that injuries, likely inflicted while out cerebrating the season of goodwill, increase significantly over the Christmas period, compared with the rest of the year.
America'ns are busy injuring themselves at Christmas also with the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission stating there were 407 Christmas-related admissions to health centres and emergency departments last year with an accident with Christmas lights the most likely cause of injury followed by Christmas trees with one lady painfully, and somehow, fell while erecting her tree and went to hospital with a Fir Tree branch in a place where a Fir Tree branch really has no business being.
Overall, the age group 1-10 were most likely injure themselves, then the 51-60 age group with the most common injuries being cuts (18%), ingestion or inhalation of foreign objects (15%), sprains and strains (15%) and scratches (14%) so as you prepare for the Festive season, avoid the Griswald Family example else you may well end up like your Christmas turkey, burnt and with a foreign object inside you.