Parents: beware of shopping carts and escalators CHICAGO (Reuters) – Shopping carts, escalators and lawn mowers injure 35,000 American children every year and should be redesigned, researchers said on Monday. Last year in the United States, 24,000 children were hurt badly enough to go to the hospital after falling out of shopping carts or topping over while they rode, a statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics said. Three-quarters of the injuries were to the head or neck. Some children got injured when they were trapped in carts, or fell off while riding on the outside or while standing up…