title: Soda pop vending machine injuries.
abstract: Fifteen male patients, 15 to 24 years of age, sustained injuries after rocking soda machines. The machines fell onto the victims, resulting in a variety of injuries. Three were killed. The remaining 12 required hospitalization for their injuries. Unless changes are made to safeguard these machines, people will continue to suffer severe and possibly fatal injuries from what are largely preventable accidents.
authors.affiliation: Medical Corps, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC.
authors.forename: M Q
authors.initials: MQ
authors.lastname: Cosio
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D004869:Equipment Safety; D005509:Food Dispensers, Automatic; D005522:Food Services; D006112:Gravitation; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D055585:Physical Phenomena; D010825:Physics; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality