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I wasn't mad. I was scared he would climb on it while the oven was hot. The other fear here should be that it acts like a lever. The kid doesn't have to be th
by btilly 7y ago
I wasn't mad. I was scared he would climb on it while the oven was hot.
The other fear here should be that it acts like a lever. The kid doesn't have to be that heavy to cause a free-standing stove to tip over.
This is not a hypothetical danger.
https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2010/11/one-year-old-child-killed-when-range-tips-over/index.htm https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2010/11/one-year-ol... reports that over a thousand kids per year get injured this way and on average 1-2 of them die.
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- wccrawford 7y agoThere is supposed to be something at the back of the stove to prevent it from tipping over. Ours had a little device that surrounded one of the feet to do this. The installer said it was now required by law.
- btilly 7y agoThat has been required by law for a long time now. A lot of stoves don't have it actually installed even though they are supposed to.