Each year the UK Department of Trade and Industry produces its Home and Leisure Accident Surveillance System report, listing the numbers of accidents from various causes in the home. And each year it is summarised in New Scientist's Feedback column, http://www.newscientist.com/feedback/ as it is hilarious (well to those of us fortunate not to suffer such an incident.
For example, 37 accidents caused by tea-cosies (the wooly covers for a tea pot for you coffe drinking nations); hospitalisations caused by socks and tights are up to 10,773. And if you thought putting the socks and tights in the laundry basket and closing the lid would keep you safe, 3421 people were attacked, sorry - injured, by clothes baskets, no doubt egged on by all those malicious socks and tights!

Well worth a visit to the site, just try to imagine how some of the accidents could have happened

Rod