U.S. Kids Still Dying From Toppling TVs, Furniture

By Robert Preidt

HealthDay Reporter

FRIDAY, Feb. 4, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Before your eyes turn into glued to the Super Bowl or the Winter Olympics, make sure that your TV and furnishings are anchored to the wall to guard little ones from probably lethal tip-overs.

Between 2018 and 2020, a median of twenty-two,500 Americans a 12 months required emergency division remedy for tip-over accidents, and practically 44% have been below 18, based on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).

Since 2000, there have been practically 600 tip-over deaths involving furnishings, TVs or home equipment, and 81% of these victims have been youngsters 17 and youthful.

“People both do not know concerning the dangers, or they assume it might’t occur when an grownup is close by,” stated CPSC Chair Alex Hoehn-Saric.

According to the brand new CPSC report, 71% of all little one deaths concerned a TV; 62% of deaths in all age teams concerned a TV; 55% of deaths concerned individuals being crushed; and 66% of deaths resulted from head accidents.

In 2015, CPSC launched a marketing campaign referred to as AnchorIt! to coach Americans concerning the risks of tip-overs. Between 2011 and 2020, there was a 55% lower in tip-over accidents handled in U.S. emergency rooms, largely resulting from fewer TV tip-overs.

“We’re happy to see the lower in tip-over accidents over time,” Hoehn-Saric stated in a fee information launch.

Protection is cheap and simple to put in, he stated.

“Most anti-tip-over kits value lower than $20 and may be put in in fewer than 20 minutes,” Hoehn-Saric stated. “We urge dad and mom and caregivers to guard their youngsters and households and make the time to safe heavy gadgets of their properties.”

The CPSC presents these recommendations:

• Anchor TVs and furnishings resembling bookcases and dressers securely to the wall.
• TVs must be on a sturdy, low base and positioned again so far as attainable, notably if they can not be anchored.
• Don’t show or retailer gadgets resembling toys and remotes the place children could also be tempted to climb to succeed in for them.
• Store heavier gadgets on decrease cabinets or in decrease drawers.
• When you purchase a brand new TV, think about recycling your previous one. If you progress the older TV to a different room, be certain it’s anchored to the wall correctly.
• Keep TV and cable cords out of youngsters’s attain.
• Even when TVs and furnishings are anchored, youngsters ought to nonetheless be supervised by an grownup.

More data

Safe Kids Worldwide has extra about stopping tip-over tragedies.

SOURCE: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, information launch, Feb. 3, 2022

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