Tip-Over Hazards
Press Release # 10-351
Transcript
The picture, text and audio sequence is as follows:
- Scene: entertainment center falling over [Crashing sound]
- Screen reading: "One child dies every two weeks when a TV, furniture or an applicance falls on him. More than 16,000 children 5 years old and younger were injured in 2006".
- Pictures of child involved in a tip-over.
- Audio (mother of child): The last conversation I had with her was, "Good night, Mommy, I love you." Five o'clock in the morning I woke up to the sound of the TV falling. I did not know she was underneath it, so I called her name, "Janiyah, Janiyah, where are you? And I turned around, and I just saw her legs under the TV. You just don't think of televisions or bolting your dressers to the wall. You don't think of those things. They don't tell you to do that when you get out of the hospital with your baby. You need a car seat, but they don't tell you when your child starts walking, make sure your furniture's bolted down.
- Close-up of mother (Sylvia Santiago) talking.
- Screen reading: "The Hazard".
- Audio (Dr. Gary A Smith, MD, DrPH): The majority of furniture tip over injuries occur in the home to children five years and younger.
- Scene: entertainment center falling over on doll [Crashing sound]
- Audio (Close-up of Dr. Gary A Smith, MD, DrPH): Most devastating injuries that we see to children because of furniture tip over are injuries to the brain, and also when a child is trapped underneath a heavy piece of furniture and suffocates. And the most important thing for parents to know is that most, if not all of these injuries are preventable.
- Scenes: entertainment center falling over [Crashing sound]
- Audio (Close-up of Dr. Gary A Smith, MD, DrPH): And the most important thing for parents to know is that most, if not all of these injuries are preventable.
- Screen reading: "Prevention".
- Audio (Close-up of CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum): I urge parents to include securing TVs, furniture, and appliances in their childproofing efforts. Taking a few moments now to anchor and secure TVs, furniture, and appliances can prevent a tip over tragedy later.
- Scene: installing anchor to prevent tip-over.
- Audio (Sylvia Santiago): A television can be a child's best friend, but it can also be a parent's worst enemy.
- Screen reading: "For more information about how to make your home safe go to www.cpsc.gov"
- Picture: entertainment center falling over on doll.
- End