Deck the halls (extra carefully): These are the most common Christmas injuries [Video]

Anyone who’s seen December classics like “Home Alone” or “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” knows that holiday decor can pack a punch: Tree baubles turn to glass-shard booby traps, and string lights become tripwires. While neither movie landed any characters in the hospital, in reality, Christmas decor debacles send thousands of Americans to emergency departments each winter.Related video above: Driving home a Christmas tree can be risky. Here’s how to do it safelyEvery year, an estimated 16,000 people head to the hospital for holiday-decor-related injuries across the United States. In the past two decades, that added up to nearly 312,000 estimated trips to the emergency room, according to a CNN analysis of data from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.The CSPC’s National Electronic Injury Surveillance System tracks emergency department visits to a sample of about 100 hospitals across the country to make annual estimates of the number of consumer product-related injuries …