Never Put Children's Climbing Gyms On Hard Surfaces, Indoors Or Outdoors
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Never Put Children's Climbing Gyms On Hard Surfaces, Indoors Or Outdoors
CPSC Document #5119
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is warning parents and
daycare providers that children's plastic climbing equipment should not be used
indoors on wood or cement floors, even if covered with carpet, such as indoor/out-door,
shag or other types of carpet. Carpet does not provide adequate protection to
prevent injuries.
CPSC has reports of two children killed and hundreds injured at home and at day-care
centers when they fell from climbing equipment placed indoors on cement,
wood or carpeted floors.
Parents and child care-givers should put all climbing equipment outdoors on sur-faces
such as sand or mulch to prevent children's head injuries. Manufacturers of
plastic climbing equipment are labeling their products with warnings to NEVER put
the equipment on concrete, asphalt, wood, or other hard surfaces and that carpet
may NOT prevent injury.
For more information on child safety, call the Consumer Product Safety
Commission at (800) 638-2772.
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