Tag result for article published on Mon January 16 2012 6:57 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: child trauma, Consumer Product Safety Commission, CPSC, falling television, falling TV, instability of furniture, instability of televisions, instability of TVs, television fatalities, television fatality, television hazard, television tipover fatalities, television tipover fatality, tipover accidents, tipover television accidents, trauma alert, tube television hazard
An unstable top-heavy/front heavy, older model television set has apparently caused the third death of a child in a three-month period in Chicagoland on Sunday. Gianna Hadjis, 4, of 668 Sullivan Lane in University Park, was fatally injured when she was struck in the head by a falling TV. Gianna Hadjis was pronounced dead at [...]
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Tag result for article published on Tue November 01 2011 7:22 am. CLICK TITLE TO EXPAND.Tags: Consumer Product Safety Commission, CPSC, instability of furniture, instability of televisions, instability of TVs, television fatalities, television fatality, television hazard, television tipover fatalities, television tipover fatality, tipover accidents, tipover television accidents, tube television hazard
An unstable top-heavy/front heavy, older model television set is likely the cause of the death of Karl Clermont, who was found underneath the TV in his basement with severe head injuries just after 8:45 p.m. Sunday, October 30, 2011. The older model television with the weight of a heavy glass tube at the front-facing part [...]
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