Beware the attack bed

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If you weren’t injured by a bed in 2001, consider yourself lucky.

Deep within the 1,000-plus pages of the Census Bureau’s newly released 2004-05 Statistical Abstract of the United States, readers can find a compendium of injuries associated with various consumer products and household fixtures. (The statistics are extrapolated from a sampling of hospital emergency-room data from 2001.)

As you’d expect, there were lots of injuries involving saws (93,872), lawn mowers (87,506), skateboards (104,449) and trampolines (91,870).

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