OPEN WINDOWS POSE RISK TO CHILDREN OF ACCIDENTAL FALL, INJURY & DEATH

From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens Bronx; Queens Accident Lawyer)

Warm weather is here. Windows are open (except when they're closed for air conditioning). The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is warning everyone that open windows present a risk of falling, and accident and injury to children.

Statistics show that because of open-window accidents, annually about eight five years-old and younger die, and about 3,300 children five and younger go to a hospital E.R. Of those children taken to the E.R., about one-third (⅓) were admitted into the hospital. Deaths and injury most often happens when a child pushes him- or herself against a window screen or climbs onto furniture located near an open window.  Remember, a window screen is to keep out insects, not to keep in children.

"The deaths and life-altering injuries we have seen here at CPSC are heart-breaking and in many cases preventable," said CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum. "We want parents and caregivers to think safety before opening the windows where young children are present."

The best solution: window guards.

Remember Dear Readers, your child may not be as luck as the toddler who fell out of his parents' apartment window, and survived nicely. You can check out this story on my blog.