Not an uncommon way for young kids to die:
A boy from Gardner, Massachusetts was killed last Thursday when a television fell on him during an after-school program.
We’ve covered a few of these stories here in the “Gun Death?” Files. But hardly them all!
We reached out to Kate Carr, President and CEO of SafeKids USA. Kate said: “sadly, we know that every 3 weeks a child dies from a television tipping over. Over the past 10 years, a child visited the emergency room every 45 minutes because of a TV tipping over.”
Those are HUGE numbers! Amazing! They even have a well-made video:
I know 3 of our 4 TVs are VERY safe, I’ll need to look into that 4th one once we start child-proofing our house once little LaWeer’da starts going mobile!
H/T Mrs. Weer’d
