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Of the total number of injuries to children, CPSC considers about thirty three percent severe, including fractures, concussions, internal injuries, and dental injuries. The remaining sixty seven percent less severe injuries include contusions, abrasions, lacerations, strains, and sprains.

More than 50 percent of the children under the age of 11 who were injured while playing baseball received injuries to the head and neck area, while a larger percentage of older children sustained injuries to their arms and legs.

Of the 162,100 hospital emergency room treated injuries in 1995, the majority of the injuries (almost 75 percent) happened to older children ages 10 to 14. This age group represents about 1/2 of the total number of children playing baseball.

Based on its analyses, CPSC found that three pieces of safety equipment will help reduce injuries.

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Softer-than-standard baseballs and softballs, which have a softer, spongier core than standard baseballs and softballs, can reduce ball impact injuries. Face guards that attach to batting helmets and protect the face can reduce injuries to batters.

Safety bases that release from their anchor can reduce sliding injuries. Safety release bases that are based on age, gender, and skill levels of the players provide the best protection

Conclusions from the CPSC Study:

Baseball protective equipment that is currently on the market may prevent, reduce, or lessen the severity of more than 58,000 injuries or almost thirty six percent an estimated 162,100 hospital emergency room treated, baseball related injuries occurring to children each year.

Softer than standard balls may prevent, reduce, or lessen the severity of the 47,900 ball impact injuries to the head and neck.

Batting helmets with face guards may prevent, reduce, or lessen the severity of about three thousand nine hundred facial injuries occurring to batters in organized games.

The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission's role is to protect the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from more than fifteen thousand types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. Deaths, injuries and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the USA more than $700 billion each year. The CPSC is charged with protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical, or mechanical hazard or can injure children. The CPSC's work to ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters, and household chemicals - contributed significantly to the thirty percent reduction in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past thirty years.

To report a dangerous product or a product-related injury, call CPSC's hotline at (800) 638-2772

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