New in package lot of 2 Furniture Tip Restraints / Child Protection / Elderly in North Smithfield, RI

New in package lot of 2 Furniture Tip Restraints / Child Protection / Elderly Elderly and Children are often at risk for tipping furniture and injury as so many use them to navigate, support or even try to climb on them!New in individual packages. You are bidding on 2 Walter of Wabash Furniture Tipping Restraint Kits.14,700+ children are injured yearly by tipping furniture!!Don't let your loved ones be among those statistics!! According to a 2009 study by Nationwide Children?s Hospital, an average of 14,700 children in the United States are injured each year due to tipping furniture. There were 300 deaths during the period studied. Most of these injuries involved children six years and younger. More than 25% of the injuries occurred when the child pulled over or climbed on the furniture.Furniture Tip-over FactsEvery year, 14,700 children younger than 18 years of age visit the emergency department for injuries from furniture tip-overs.TV tip-overs cause the most injuries for children younger than 10 years. Young children are most likely to suffer head and neck injuries.Desks, cabinets and bookshelves tipping over lead to the greatest number of injuries to children ages 10-17 years. These older children usually suffer lower body injuries.What Causes Tip-overs?Most injuries occur when unsecured furniture falls or tips-over.Many times a child pulls the furniture onto himself.Other causes include children climbing the furniture or pushing it over on another child.Who is at Risk?Most injuries occur to children younger than 7 years of age.Young children are not able to think about the danger of their actions. They are often not fast enough to avoid a falling piece of furniture, or strong enough to lift the furniture off of themselves if they are trapped. What can you do to protect your children, your grandchildren or family friends? You can use properly-secured tipping restraints to secure your furniture and to make tipping difficult, if not impossible. Tip restraints are recommended on bedroom dressers, chests and door chests more than 30? high.This installs easily and quickly by securing the top of the dresser or chest to a nearby stud. Each package includes two screws, angle brackets and a flat nylon tie. Installation instructions printed in English, Spanish and French. Please make sure that you follow directions carefully. If not properly installed, tip restraints can fail. Here are some additional safety tips: Place the heaviest items on the lowest shelves or bottom drawers. Don't ever place a television or other heavy object on the top of a dresser, book case, or other storage piece. Use consoles or cabinets designed to hold a television. Televisions were involved in nearly half of the injuries reported in the Nationwide Children's Hospital study. Place TVs on a low wide base. Push it back as close to the wall as possible.Keep cords from TVs and other appliances tucked away so a child does not pull the item down on top of him/her.Never allow children to climb or hang on drawers, doors or shelves. Never open more than one drawer at a time. Don't disable the drawer stops. Don't place the remote control or toys or other objects that your child may want within his/her view on upper shelves or on the top of furniture. HH510 tip restraint is compliant with newly revised ASTM F[removed phone] standard.