CPSC also receives reports of about 6 deaths each year. The majority of these injuries and deaths are to children. These injuries and deaths frequently occur when children climb onto, fall against, or pull themselves up on such items as shelves, bookcases, dressers, bureaus, desks, chests, and television stands. In some cases, televisions on furniture tip over.
Children often climb up the open drawers of furniture.
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