One of the biggest dangers to children is still present in almost every home: window blinds with long cords that can easily get tangled around an unassuming infant or precocious toddler. In fact, ...

Legrand Shading Systems has introduced Cord Keeper, a safe solution for chain-operated shades. Legrand’s Cord Keeper is designed for safety and peace of mind for commercial and residential ...

You may notice a significant change the next time you go shopping for window blinds. The Troubleshooters warned you about the dangers of corded window blinds a few years ago in a joint investigation ...

A team of researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital has published a new report in Pediatrics that tallies the number of deaths and injuries due to ...

(CNN) -- Nearly one child dies every month and about two are injured every day in window blind-related incidents, according to a new study. From 1990 to 2015, nearly 17,000 children younger than 6 ...

Jeremy and Carolyn Eastburn with their daughter, Presley, who died in December 2016 at the age of 4. She was strangled on a custom window blind the family bought for their new home near Houston.

They don’t look dangerous – not like a knife or open flame – but the cords on window blinds and shades can be just as deadly when they get wrapped around a child’s neck. Almost every month, on average ...

OTTAWA – Three international safety agencies have come together to demand stronger standards for window coverings which have been blamed for the strangulation deaths of a number of children worldwide.