Study Recommends Complete Ban On Window Blinds With Cords

CHICAGO (AP) — Children’s injuries and deaths from window blinds have not stalled despite decades of safety concerns, according to a new U.S. study that recommends a complete ban on blinds with cords. Nearly 17,000 young children were hurt by window blinds between 1990 and 2015, and though most injuries were minor, almost 300 died, the study shows. Most deaths occurred when children became entangled or strangled by the cords. Image credit: CBS News Injuries continued even after manufacturers adopted voluntary safety standards including warning labels. The industry now has a plan in the works to make cordless blinds the only option at retail stores and online. The study “should be a huge wake-up call to the public, to the retailers, to the manufacturers and to parents all over the nation to really see how hazardous the cords on the blinds are,” said Linda Kaiser of St Louis. Her 1-year-old daughter died in 2002 from strangulation when she pulled a looped hidden cord from a blind and put it around her neck. Kaiser later formed the advocacy group Parents for Window Blind Safety. The @AmerAcadPeds published a new study this morning calling for a *mandatory* safety standard to eliminate window blinds with cords. @annawerner shows us what happened to one family, and why not everyone agrees a mandatory gov. fix is needed. pic.twitter.com/jUdLwujAUl — CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) December 11, 2017 While study’s data analysis doesn’t show...
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