You may not know it, but thousands of kids are sent to the emergency room every year because of home exercise equipment accidents. In fact, the number one cause of death for toddlers is unintentional injury; that includes common home equipment like treadmills & weights.
A calorie burning, heart pumping stop at the gym; fuel for any exercise junkie.
But as Nicole Ashmore learned, you're not always able to leave home to get in your workout high.
It's all attractive to little curious eyes and highly dangerous.
The consumer product safety commission reports that 25,000 kids are injured every year by home exercise machines.
The story of Mike Tyson's 4-year-old daughter brings it all home; the little girl was strangled and killed by a cord connected to a treadmill machine.
Even gyms like aspen athletic club at Penn Square Mall take special precautions to keep adults safe.
Owner Mike Medves has his safety expert routinely go through the gym looking for red flags.
Mike says there are three easy things parents can do at home: -Make the equipment completely off limits. -Remove the safety key if the equipment comes with one. -And put up a gate to better childproof restricted areas.
A calorie burning, heart pumping stop at the gym; fuel for any exercise junkie.
But as Nicole Ashmore learned, you're not always able to leave home to get in your workout high.
It's all attractive to little curious eyes and highly dangerous.
The consumer product safety commission reports that 25,000 kids are injured every year by home exercise machines.
The story of Mike Tyson's 4-year-old daughter brings it all home; the little girl was strangled and killed by a cord connected to a treadmill machine.
Even gyms like aspen athletic club at Penn Square Mall take special precautions to keep adults safe.
Owner Mike Medves has his safety expert routinely go through the gym looking for red flags.
Mike says there are three easy things parents can do at home: -Make the equipment completely off limits. -Remove the safety key if the equipment comes with one. -And put up a gate to better childproof restricted areas.
