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A TV, furniture, or appliance toppling over and crushing a child happens far too often. These incidents can be prevented. An estimated annual average of 38,000 emergency department-treated injuries (2011–2013) and 430 reported fatalities associated with TV, furniture, and appliance tipovers occurred between 2000 and…

Learn how to avoid a potentially dangerous tipping hazard that might be sitting right in your child’s room.

It is our hope at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) that, through improved safety standards and education, we can save lives and prevent injuries.

Tipover accidents remain a serious problem. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says one child dies every two weeks when they pull down furniture or TV’s. However, there is a solution.

  WASHINGTON, D.C. – In March of this year, an 11 month old died while watching TV with his dad and his 2-year-old sibling. The baby’s brother bumped into the furniture holding the TV and the TV fell onto the baby’s head and abdomen. Unfortunately,…