Tipping TVs Still a Danger

Falling TVs have always been a danger to young children. Almost every house in the US has at least one TV. More than half of all households have three or more TVs. A new study looked at TV-related injuries in children between 1990 and 2011. During that 22-year period, about 381,000 children under age 18 were treated in emergency rooms for TV-related injuries. That’s an average of about 17,000 children a year. Or about one child every 30 minutes. The most common injury was from a TV falling on a child (53%). Two out of three children were under age five. Injuries to the head or neck were most common, followed by injuries to the legs. The information came from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System. The study appeared in the Journal Pediatrics.