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Table 2 Common places of injury occurrence and activities

From: Community perceptions of unintentional child injuries in Makwanpur district of Nepal: a qualitative study

Mechanism

Place

Activities leading to injuries

Burns

Inside the home

Toddlers or small children walk into the hot ashes or cooking fire, playing with hot utensils around the kitchen, children roasting food (fish or potatoes) themselves.

Crush injuries

Work

Pulled by the flour-mill belts, crushed with rock or timber

Cut or sharp injuries

Farms/jungles

While collecting grass and firewood, while cutting grass or crops harvesting, while playing on the yard

Drowning

Water bodies

River, streams, water-bodies in unfamiliar places

Falls

Leisure

While playing in the playground, walking or wandering in streets/trails

Public places

Accidental falls on steps of a temple, or in the farms, from ladders, steps,

Leisure

Riding bicycles. Falls from the roof while flying kites

Poisoning

Indoor/Outdoor

Consume substances like ghee, poisons, ointment

Indoors

Accidentally mixed with food stuffs kept indoor, consuming kerosene accidently.

RTIs

Roads

Pedestrians crossing the road, crushed by a vehicle, motor cycling

Snake bites

Outdoors

While walking, playing or working in the fields