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 |