New research serves as a warning about a common household item that can pose a serious safety threat to young children: window blind cords. A new study published in the journal Pediatrics found that ...

Pull cords on window blinds and draperies have been a known strangulation hazard for children. Indeed, a 6-year-old developmentally disabled girl in Costa Mesa recently died after accidentally ...

Action 2 News is learning more about a new safety standard in the window blind industry, after the tragic death of a Sheboygan child Tuesday. The Sheboygan Police Department says the one-year-old boy ...

In response to tragic accidental strangulation deaths and injuries in young children, a ban on the manufacturing of corded blinds recently went into effect. In accordance with the new regulations, ...

Almost 17,000 children under six years of age were treated in hospital emergency departments in the US for window blind-related injuries from 1990 through 2015, averaging almost two per day. While the ...

While the cords dangling from your window blinds may not seem like a risky item, for small children, they can pose the risk of strangulation or serious injury, according to a new report. The study ...

Even though window coverings have been recognized for decades as a safety hazard to children, injuries from blinds and shades still send many kids to the emergency room each year, a U.S. study ...

Most people don't look at the cords hanging from their window covers and see danger. But the Walla family does. That's because 15 years ago, a then-3-year-old Gavin Walla became entangled in the cords ...

Window blinds and coverings with cords pose serious risk of injury or strangulation to infants and young children. But consumer advocates are hopeful that new standards for window coverings ...

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- In an effort to reduce the risk of strangulation deaths and serious life-threatening injuries to children from corded window coverings, the U.S. Consumer ...

Jeremy and Carolyn Eastburn with their daughter, Presley, who died in December 2016 at the age of 4. She was strangled on a custom window blind the family bought for their new home near Houston.

Andrea Sutton, a mom in Firestone, Colo., was trying to put her 3-year-old son Daniel down for a nap, but he wasn't having it. It was January, too cold for him to burn off much energy outside, and he ...