I wrote a post about Mike Tyson’s daughter being in critical condition after getting tangled in a cord on a treadmill. If you haven’t already herd Mike Tyson’s daughter Exodus passed away.
Being a father myself it just breaks my heart whenever I here of this kind of tragedy that involves the death of a child. It brings tears to my eyes just writing this post.
Apparently treadmill injuries are not that uncommon with children.
This is what the South Florida Sun-Senteniel had to say:
…Almost 5,500 children under age 5 were treated in emergency rooms in 2006 and 2007 for treadmill-related injuries, according to statistics from the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
Most had cuts, bruises and scrapes, primarily on the hands or fingers; one child’s injury required an amputation. Thirty-two percent had their hands caught in or on the treadmill, in some cases suffering serious friction burns.
Like I mentioned in my previous post please keep your children away from treadmills and any other kind of exercise equipment. Put a lock on the door where your equipment is if you have to.
The consequences could be deadly.
Hans K Anderson
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Police say boxer Mike Tyson’s 4-year-old daughter is on life support after she was found with her neck tangled in a cable from a treadmill.
Police Sgt. Andy Hill said the “tragic accident” happened Monday morning at Tyson’s home when the girl’s 7-year-old brother found her on a treadmill with a cable attached to the treadmill, wrapped around her neck.
The girl’s brother told their mother who was in another room what he had found. The mother took the cable off the young girl, called 911 and tried to revive her.
Police Sgt. Hill informed the media that the girl is in “extremely critical condition” and on life support.
Mike Tyson returned to Phoenix immediately after learning of the accident. Tyson was out of town at the time.
If you have exercise equipment at home with small children around please make sure that you child proof your equipment.
If there are cables hanging loose secure them to the equipment. If you use free weights make sure you don’t leave a loaded barbell with weights on your bench press. Keep your children away from the equipment, don’t let them play on it, teach them that it is not a toy. Explain to them that they can be seriously injured if they play with the equipment.
When it comes to the safety of our children, take nothing for granted.
Hans K Anderson
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