Full Notification

Window screens keep bugs out, but won’t keep kids in. CPSC is urging consumers to think safety before opening windows where young children are present. CPSC data indicates that, on average, about eight deaths from window falls occur yearly to children five years and younger. An estimated 3,300 children five and younger are treated each year in hospital emergency rooms. Hospitalization is required for about 34 percent of these children falling from a window.

Please download and circulate our NSN Safety poster in both English and Spanish at http://www.cpsc.gov/nsn/windowsafety.pdf and http://www.cpsc.gov/nsn/windowsafetysp.pdf to alert consumers to the serious dangers associated with children playing around open windows.

If your effort reduces just one incident with your friends, family or day care centers, it will be well worth the time. Once again, we thank you for partnering with us to help keep your community safer.

Thank you.

US Consumer Product Safety Commission