| Did you know that every day, approximately 40 | | | | fall. |
| young children are taken to hospital emergency | | | | Skull fracture is a common type of injury from a |
| rooms with injuries suffered as a result of a heavy | | | | falling TV, which can lead to a range of short-term, |
| piece of furniture falling on them? Furthermore, TV | | | | long-term, or lifelong disabilities, many of which require |
| sets were the most common item associated with | | | | rehabilitation. They can include problems with bladder |
| tip-over injuries to children. | | | | or bowel control, lessened cognitive ability, and |
| Dr. Gary Smith, head of the Center for Injury | | | | lessened ability to bathe, dress, walk, eat |
| Research and Policy at the Children's Hospital in | | | | independently, hear, see, speak, or feel (due to |
| Columbus, Ohio, used data from the Consumer | | | | nerve damage). |
| Product Safety Commission to analyze injuries to | | | | If this information is alarming to you, it should be. But |
| children in the U.S. between 1990 and 2007. During | | | | there are things you can do to protect your children, |
| that time, an estimated 264,200 furniture tip-over | | | | as well as any beloved family member - including the |
| related-injuries occurred that required a trip to the | | | | four-legged ones! |
| emergency room. According to the study, published in | | | | TV lift cabinets and consoles are a beautifully |
| Clinical Pediatrics, three-quarters of the injuries were | | | | decorative and safe alternative to the dangerous TV |
| to children 6-years-old and younger with 1- to | | | | stand. With a remote control, the TV (and all of the |
| 3-year-olds being the most vulnerable. | | | | equipment that accompanies it - cable box, DVD |
| A TV tip-over typically occurs when a child attempts | | | | player, cords and wires, etc.) can be "lifted" from the |
| to climb onto furniture (or into a drawer of a dresser | | | | cabinet/console when you are ready to use them. |
| on which a TV sits), causing the furniture and/or the | | | | More importantly, however, is that they "disappear" |
| TV to fall onto the child. The child may also attempt | | | | back into the cabinet when TV time is over, keeping |
| to grab a toy from the top of a TV, or to change a | | | | both your investment and your family safe and |
| DVD in a player on the TV, causing those items to | | | | secure. |