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Spring Safety

Spring into SafetyWhen Old Man Winter calls it quits for the year, people all across the world climb ladders to spruce up the exterior of their homes, examine gutters, paint and perform other tasks associated with spring cleaning. While working around the house can be very rewarding, hundreds of thousands of injuries occur each year as a result of mishaps related to electric tools, ladders and lawn mowers.

  • On average about 220,000 people make emergency room visits due to ladder mishaps each year.
  • More than 87,000 people are treated annually in hospital emergency rooms for lawn mower injuries - casualties of burns, dismemberment, electric shock, falls and thrown objects.
  • Another 76,000 people sustain injuries from power garden tools such as trimmers, lawn edgers and pruners.

To avoid paying a visit to the emergency room this spring, the safety professional at Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL) would like you to be aware of these basic safety guidelines for proper use of your lawn and garden equipment, tools and ladders. Following these precautions and the manufacturer's instructions may help you to enjoy longer, safer use of your spring cleaning tools and help keep you and your family safe during spring cleaning season.

ABOUT UL

Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL) is an independent, not-for-profit testing and certification organization that has objectively evaluated products for safety for more than a century. More than 17 billion products bearing the UL Mark enter the marketplace every year.

WHAT IS THE UL MARK?

The UL Mark is the most widely recognized safety certification mark in North America. The UL Mark on a product means that representative samples of that product have been tested to nationally recognized safety standards and found to be reasonably free from the risk of fire, electric shock and related hazards.

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