Children have crawled into freezers, clothes dryers, picnic coolers, and refrigerators and suffocated. Read these recommendations for information on how to prevent these accidents. If a child is missing, these appliances and picnic coolers should be the first place you check. Accordion-style baby gates made before 1985 can trap a child s head and kill or injure the child. These gates should not be used around children.
Exercise equipment causes a startling number of injuries in children.
Keep children away from your equipment. Recliner chairs have caused death and brain injury in children playing on them. A child can become trapped when their head enters the space above the footrest and the weight of their body forces the footrest down. Strings, cords and necklaces around a baby s neck can strangle them. Never tie anything around a baby s neck.