Furniture tip overs cause injuries to thousands of people especially children each year.
Furniture tip over.
By will troutman us and eva yang us on december 2 2019 posted in consumer product safety commission general recent legislation and regulations.
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Furniture can kill or maim.
The increase in furniture tip over injuries over a period of time has made this a leading child safety issue.
Furniture tip over remains in flux.
While newly manufactured furniture may comply with the american society for testing materials atsm standard and even come with tip restraints older pieces may not be similarly equipped and may require these safety measures.
According to anchorit gov every 15 minutes someone is injured by furniture tip over in the u s.
And the cpsc reports that one child dies.
When furniture or tvs tip and fall on them according to the consumer product safety commission.
Physics is what causes furniture to tip and using physics engineers can design instability out of furniture.
More than 15 000 people are injured each year in the u s.
One study found a 41 increase in furniture tip over incidents from 1990 to 2007 and despite the interest of consumer advocates ngos government legislators and even many furniture manufacturers this increase has not subsided.
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Yet preventing furniture tip overs can be relatively simple and inexpensive.
Dressers and other clothing storage units account for at least 11 percent of furniture tip over injuries according to the cpsc.
One of these potential threats is the continuing epidemic of furniture tip overs in the home.
Every 17 minutes a piece of furniture tv or appliance tipping over causes an injury in the u s according to information provided to consumer reports cr by the consumer product safety.
Even anchoring furniture to the wall is not fail safe.