Each year an average of 4,000 people are injured by teapots badly enough to require medical attention; 40,000 American citizens last year were admitted to hospital after being injured by a toilet; three people in Britain die each year testing out nine volt batteries on their tongue; thirteen people are killed each year due to having a vending machine fall on them; an average of four people are admitted to British hospitals each Christmas day with broken arms sustained in cracker-pulling incidents.
Undoubtedly some of these statistics made you laugh and all of them made you feel slightly superior to the ‘idiots’ who managed to get themselves into these situations. However, workplace accidents are common and often just as easily avoided when correct procedures are followed.
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