The researchers found that dot matrix paper and newspaper present the biggest risk for paper cuts, being three times more likely to cause injury compared to lower-risk types.
Lead author Kaare Hartvig stated that while paper has been essential to human culture, its connection to injuries like paper cuts is often underestimated and poorly studied.
The study examined the physical properties of paper, highlighting the importance of thickness in the likelihood of causing cuts and challenging previous assumptions about their unpredictability.
While previous research has largely focused on the risk of infection from cuts, this study sheds light on the mechanisms behind why certain papers are more hazardous.
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