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TPDN 1985, Vol. 45, No. 32
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CPSC ALERT:
CHILD ACCIDENTS IN RECLINER CHAIRS
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the American Furniture
Manufacturers Association (AFMA) have issued a national consumer alert about possible
accidental death or injury to young children using or playing on recliner chairs. In
the past five years, the commission has investigated or received reports of three
deaths and two serious brain injuries to children. Of the estimated 87 million
American households, an estimated 24 million households have recliner chairs.
Information available to the CPSC about the accidents, although incomplete, leads
CPSC to conclude that the victims:
1. Were between the ages of 12 months and 20 months,
2. Were unsupervised by parents and alone in the room at the time of the
accident,
3. Were apparently climbing or playing on the leg-rest of the chair while
the chair was in a reclined position, and
4. Were trapped when their heads entered the opening between the chair
seat and leg-rest as their own body weight forced the leg-rest down.
The CPSC and the AFMA suggest that parents use appropriate precautions in
young children from playing on recliner chairs. Consumers are urged to
accidents with recliner chairs to the Consumer Product Safety Commission,
DC 20207, or call the toll-free hotline, 1-800-638-CPSC. A teletypewriter
the hearing-impaired is 1-800-638-8270.
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