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Receptacles That Solve Child Safety Issues
Author: Chris B Posted Date: 8/14/2008 3:03:17 PM
Child safety has virtually always been an issue with electrical receptacles. Those typical situations where someone could be injured have some consistent characteristics. The victim is usually a male child under 3 years old, who sticks a hairpin or a similar object (i.e. keys, wire, screw, nail, or a finger alone) into a household receptacle, and as a result suffers up to 2nd-degree burns from electricity.
This is more common of an occurrence than some might think. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) estimates that between 1991 and 2001, more than 24,000 children under 10 years old had to be taken to the Emergency Room for this same electrical injury scenario. That amounts to around 7 children per day. And 89% of these children were under 6 years old! [See Source]
This just shouldn‘t be an “inevitable” risk anymore. We can take responsibility for safety now, even better than before, because of child-resistant and tamper-proof devices. First, Leviton has its “Kiddy Cop” line that features Child-Resistant Wallplates:
Leviton also has tamper proof receptacles in various grades and styles, perfect for something like a daycare facility where so many children need to be accounted for. A child is unable to plug something in and get accidentally shocked because there is a special shutter system incorporated into the receptacle:
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