It takes less than 1 second for a child to receive a full thickness (3rd degree) burn at just 68°C. The glass on an oven door can reach up to 80°C.
Young children do not have the reflexes to pull their hands away from a hot oven door, even though they are experiencing pain.
Research shows that burns are the third most frequent injury in the home (Victoria Emergency Minimum Dataset 2001). And over half of all injuries caused by an oven, are caused by an oven door (Routley and Ashby 1997). |