Hob
The most common place where injuries happen is the home for children and the elderly.
For adults, it’s the workplace. Specifically, the kitchen is the most common room in the house where burn injuries occur and in 2022, burns related to an electric hob were in the top 4 causes of injury.
It is crucial for adults to closely monitor young children around hot cooking surfaces and areas and to keep them out of the kitchen when cooking with hot pans. Always using the back burners on the hob when you can and turning handles away from the edge of the hob are ways we can reduce the number of children who are burned from reaching up to saucepans on the hob.
Data from the International Burn Injury Database (iBID) 642 children were admitted to an NHS Burns Service due to injuries related to an electric hob in 2023. This does not include the many more who were treated in A&E departments.
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Our inspiring burn survivors help us to highlight the shocking number of burns and scalds which are happening to children everyday. We thank them all for their wonderful support.
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children a year are admitted to a specialist burns unit with burns from electric hob
parents and children attended Family Weekends in 2022
members in our private Facebook Group, supporting parents and carers of burn injured children
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