- Author
- Technical News Bulletin (National Bureau of Standards)
- Title
- Study Indicates Need for Safer Matches and Lighters.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Journal
- Technical News Bulletin (National Bureau of Standards), Vol. 56, No. 9, 215, September 1972
- Keywords
- matches | lighters | children
- Abstract
- Many lives could be spared if matches and lighters were redesigned to make them difficult or impossible for children to ignite. That's the conclusion of studies by NBS scientists involved in fire research. People have long recognized the danger of children playing with matches. Now NBS has put this danger on a quantitative basis. The NBS study has revealed that 28 percent of accidental garment fires result from match or lighter ignition. Especially tragic is the fact that children - particularly those under 10 years of age - are most often the victims of these fires.