Nearly 100,000 children, most of them under the age of 5, have been injured after falling from a window during the past two decades in the United States, new research shows.
Surprisingly, the risk of being injured after falling from a window wasn’t limited to children who live in high-rise apartment buildings. Falls from first- or second-floor windows accounted for 94 percent of the falls, according to data published Monday in the medical journal Pediatrics.
Although many cities, including New York, require protective guards to be placed on apartment windows, most owners of houses don’t take such precautions.
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