Preventing injuries on horizontal ladders and track rides.

Objectives: This study examined the type of injury, fall heights and measures of impact attenuation of surfaces on which children fell from horizontal ladders and track rides.

Method: All injured children who presented to two children's hospitals and received medical attention following a fall from a horizontal ladder or track ride in a public school or park during 1996--1997 were interviewed and the playground visited.

Results: The number of children who fell from horizontal ladders and track rides and presented to hospitals with injury was 118.