How to avoid the most common finger-loss accidents
About 30,000 people, both kids and adults, are rushed to U.S. emergency rooms each year because they've amputated a finger. The two most common causes are from things many of us come into contact with every day: doors and power tools.
Researchers from the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) in Atlanta said doors and power tools are responsible for the majority of finger amputations, and they occur most often to kids and to men over 55. Specifically, they conducted a study published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine that found: