Do We Have A Group That Keeps Track Of Stuff Like This?

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Whoops! Mind your trousers
Thu Feb 19,10:31 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Clumsy Britons risk life and limb keeping up with the latest trends such as wooden flooring and micro-scooters -- providing they survive putting their trousers on in the morning.

No fewer than 12,300 people were taken to hospital after slipping on fashionable wood floors in 2002, four times as many as in 1998, according to a report on Thursday. Many of those accidents involved slipping while walking about at home barefoot or wearing socks, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) said.

Micro-scooters were another new problem: some 20,000 people injured themselves riding the small, silver two-wheelers when the trend hit its peak in 2002, compared to only 2,200 in 1998.

But new fashions were not the only domestic danger -- in fact some problems were as old as the hills. As many as 5,310 people needed treatment after being felled pulling on a pair of trousers in 2002, up from 3,695 four years previously. But on a more encouraging note for men, there was a mild decrease in the far more serious trouser business of "zip-related mishaps." These eye-watering injuries fell to 700 in 2002 from 800 in 1998.