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(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The grass may be high and your ten year old may be bored but don’t ask him or her to go out and mow the lawn. “Crippling injuries to children occur each year due to carelessness when operating lawn mowing equipment,” says L. R. “Tres” Scherer III, MD, medical director, Riley Hospital for Children Pediatric Trauma Center and professor of surgery at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Adults and children need to exercise caution and common sense when operating any type of machinery, especially lawn mowers. “We can greatly reduce the number of injured children if adults would keep children off the lap of riding lawn mower operators and out of the yard when riding or push lawn mowers are in use. Good advice is to expect the unexpected and keep children under the age of 12 away from lawn mowers and the mowing area,” adds Dr. Scherer.
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