Raulken co.UK - Hazards: Injuries From Falling Furniture Are Rising

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60? "60px": "auto" ); height:expression(do*****ent.body.clientHeight > 60? "60px": "auto" );' onload=this.style.filter='progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(color=#000000,direction=135,strength=5)'>By ERIC NAGOURNEY Published: May 4, 2009 Injuries involving overturned televisions, shelves and other household items are on the rise, raising questions about whether enough is being done to make them safer, researchers said Monday. Skip to next paragraph Related More Vital Signs Columns Web Link Injuries From Furniture Tip-overs Among Children and Adolescents in the United States, 1990-2007 (Clinical Pediatrics) After looking at information about furniture tip-over injuries for an 18-year period, the researchers said they had found a 40 percent increase. On average, they said, more than 14,000 Americans a year are injured.The researchers, at the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, looked at injuries involving 12 types of furniture, including desks, dressers and cabinets. The study appears in the journal Clinical Pediatrics.Most of the injuries were to children 6 and younger, and the most common involved televisions, which are sometimes placed on furniture not intended to hold them. In many cases, children pulled furniture onto themselves, perhaps when they were reaching for something. In other injuries, the furniture fell because children bumped into it or were climbing it.Many of the injuries could have been prevented with simple steps like strapping TVs to their...
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