The National Safety Council indicates there are over 300,000 door injury incidents every year in the U.S. (which require emergency room or urgent care visits), and most of those injuries are to toddlers.
Sometimes it happens in early learning environments and many times it happens at home.
According to a study published by the American College of Emergency Physicians, children younger than 5 years old had the highest rate of finger amputations treated in hospital emergency rooms. Almost 75% of lost fingers from young children resulted from their finger(s) getting caught, jammed, or crushed in a doorway during the closing of a door. What is shocking, is that these finger injuries are entirely preventable where a door was involved. Door guards, or some might call them door finger guards are an effective and inexpensive way to save those precious fingers from being injured or worse.