Timetable of trouble:
8.0 am Toddler grabs flex of boiling kettle - severely scalded chest.
1.0 pm Harassed mother drops chip pan - fat splashes infant in baby walker.
3.0 Afternoon cuppa. Doorbell rings, child rushed to Burns Unit - skin grafting required.
7.0 Fun and bubbles at bathtime.
Father runs hot water - telephone distracts him. 6 year-old boy has scalds on buttocks, legs and feet.
From each of these incidents, which happen in thousands of homes every day, a child is scarred for life. They are patients in the Burns Unit at the Birmingham Accident Hospital, where Barbara Myers traces just one day's emergencies at this centre which is renowned for the treatment of burns and scalds.
Producer ANN TENNANT BBC Birmingham