Washing Machine Injuries

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Washing machine injuries. To describe washing machine related injuries in children in the United States. My grandmother used one of these well into the late 1970s. Washing machine injuries occur when attempts are made to remove clothes from the machine and the hand gets entangled in spinning laundry leading to soft tissue injuries and fractures.

Consumer Product Safety Commissions National Electronic Injury Surveillance System USA estimated that over 11000 children suffer washing machine related injury each year in USA 1. Nine injuries have been reported including a broken jaw an injured shoulder and other fall-related injuries. This may cause physical injury.

Do NOT input objects other than laundry. To prevent physical injury do NOT touch the AddWash door while the drum is rotating. If your washing machine was made after 2015 then yours has a lid lock.

I used to watch her in the basement using the wringer and she would show me her recent wringer related injuries to her hands. If your machine was made before 2015 then your machine might not have one. A case report and review of the literature Abstract.

Victims were predominantly male with both types of machine 607 for automatic and 549 for wringers. If you climb on the washing machine the worktop may break and cause injuries. The washing machine was found to be the deadliest home appliance of all.

The most common diagnoses of automatic washing machine related injuries were lacerationpuncture 311 contusionabrasionhematoma 25 and fracture 153. While the number of wringer washing machine injuries is declining due to the increasing use of automatic washing machines these injuries still occur. Compression causing contusion of skin and muscles.