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http://www.hassandlass.org.uk/ shows for 2002 that there were ~320 cases of magnet injuries (nature unspecified) in home/leisure scenarios vs. ~12000 coin injuries.

However that doesn't help us much. Strong magnets are far more prevalent now and the specific toys that caused most injuries weren't around in the UK, I think (?), back then.

Moreover, that probably makes magnet injuries per item in the home massively outweigh coin injuries.

I looked for EU IDB stats too but didn't get anywhere, my starting source was http://www.rospa.com/resources/statistics/ which lists some other potential data sources at the bottom.




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