Falls From Heights
People fall off ladders very regularly, Rutledge said, so you need to use them correctly. Place them on flat services, make sure it's stable and have someone around to spot you when you're working on a ladder.
Eye Injuries
"People are pretty good about putting on eye protection when they work with power tools," Rutledge said. "But what people don't appreciate is that they should be wearing eye protection when working overhead, even changing light bulbs because we can get significant corneal abrasions or foreign bodies in the eye just from dust falling from the ceiling."
Kitchen Knives
The most common cause of household mishaps is kitchen knives, Rutledge said. Rutlege said that cuts are typically found on an injured person's non-dominant hand. That's because they hold the knife in the dominant hand and then cut through a bun or bagel toward the hand holding the bread. Big no-no. Rutlege suggests using a device like a bagel cutter, or at the very least a cutting board, to cut bread and prevent injury.
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