Golf-cart related injuries

Take a guess, how many golf-cart related injuries do you think take place every year in the US?

Ten? A hundred? Around a thousand?

Nope. According to a Nationwide Children’s Hospital study, 2006 saw an estimated 13,411 cases of gold-cart related injuries.

13,411. In 2006. In the US alone.

I mean, considering that escalators annually injure between 7,500 to 10,000 in the US (depending on whose statistics you believe), 13,411 golf-cart related injuries just seems insane.

And, apparently “[m]ore than 30 percent of golf cart-related injuries involved children under the age of 16.” What on earth were they doing there? Do children under 16 play golf?

I of course did, but there was no chance I would have fallen off a golf-cart there. And in my current golfing career I haven’t even got past choosing what colour hair I want to have, so no chance of falling of golf-carts there.

Which, of course, raises the question how many gaming related injuries occur yearly. Curiously enough, my web search skills (or the lack of them) couldn’t produce any data. Does anyone know? Or is this a dark secret closely guarded by the gaming industry, and am I to expect the front door to be kicked in any moment now?