Escalator Avulsions

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ESCALATOR accidents resulting in serious injury are relatively uncommon and have received little attention in the medical literature. For example, in a recent article by Aitken1 on the etiology of traumatic amputations in children, six main subdivisions include childhood recreation, thermal, household, railroad, vehicular, gunshot explosion and power or farm-tool implements as a cause. Injuries due to escalators are not listed. The analysis of a large group of accidents among preschool children in the Boston area by Meyer et al.2 considers only broad categories of trauma, as do many other articles dealing with accidental injury to children. Similarly, in the . . .

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