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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) again warns the nation's school teachers not
to allow children to move or play near TV or audiovisual carts because they can tip over and kill or seriously injure children. CPSC has become aware of several incidents in schools involving the tip-over of loaded TV or audiovisual carts. Most of the carts were loaded with a TV set on the top shelf. Others were loaded with a projector, and in one incident the equipment was not known. All of the reported deaths involved tall slant-top carts (approximately 50 inches high). While available information indicates most accidents involved carts with slanted tops, CPSC is concerned about the safety of flat-topped carts as well. In most of the cases, a teacher asked the young students (ranging in age from 7 to 11) to move a cart to another room. The cart overturned when it apparently hit a child's foot while being pulled or when the child stepped on the front of the cart for a ride. Typically, two children were moving the |
audiovisual cart, one child pulling from the front and the other child pushing
from the back. The child in front was the one who was injured or killed. In one recently reported
incident in which the cart was not being moved, a young girl suffered permanent brain damage when she climbed on or fell into a cart and the cart and TV fell on her. To avoid injuries and deaths from TV or audiovisual cart tipover, teachers and school administrators should follow these safety rules:
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Do not walk in front of a loaded TV or audiovisual cart to pull or guide it.A loaded TV or audiovisual cart can overturn and cause death or serious injury from unstable conditions like quick stops and riding on the cart.