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# This Toy Is to Blame for a Huge Surge in Child Injuries

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## Maya Rhodan


Dec 1, 2014 1:00 PM UTC

by 

[Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/)


## Maya Rhodan


Dec 1, 2014 1:00 PM UTC

Toy-related injuries have risen dramatically over the past two decades — and one type of toy is largely to blame.

Injuries involving toys increased by 40% percent between 1990 and 2011, a new report from [Clinical Pediatrics](http://cpj.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/11/28/0009922814561353.abstract) found, with about 3,278,073 kids sent to emergency rooms for toy-related injuries over the two decades, or about 149,000 cases per year.

The toys most likely to lead to injury: scooters, and other ride-on toys. The popular wheeled toy accounted for 42.5% of admissions to hospitals between 1990 and 2011 and 34.9% of injuries in children.

The report is the first nationally representative study in toy-related injuries over time, though the Consumer Product Safety Commission examines injuries annually. In the two most recent reports, [scooters](http://time.com/2809542/airborne-bouncy-houses-have-nothing-on-those-dangerous-rubber-balls/) top the list of the most dangerous toys for kids.

In a statement to [_USA Today_](http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/12/01/scooters-toy-injury-study/19550159/), the president of child-safety advocacy group Safe Kids Worldwide says parents can help keep kids safe by buying age-appropriate toys and protective gear like helmets and knee pads with scooters and bikes.

_Read next:_ [_Top 10 Toys of 2014_](http://time.com/3582120/top-10-toys-2014/?xid=time%5Freadnext)

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