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I really hope most of the commentators here never get positions of responsibility. Few comments are questioning why "Peloton" or are just making stuff up, like
by aaron695 6y ago
I really hope most of the commentators here never get positions of responsibility.
Few comments are questioning why "Peloton" or are just making stuff up, like missing guards.
~3 people die a year from treadmills in the USA.
"In 2009, former boxer Mike Tyson’s daughter died when she got caught in a cord from a treadmill and accidentally hung herself"
> One of those fatalities involved a 5-year-old child, but it was not clear what occurred in that case
This is not hard to find - "Ashim Gurung died of compression of the neck, the Allegheny County Medical Examiner's Office determined."
"at least 2,600 children a year land in the emergency room from treadmills alone, according to Kim Dulic"
" in 2001, 12 children in separate incidents in Philadelphia suffered injuries from treadmill accidents. Six of them got their hands caught in the belts and suffered abrasions and resulting scar tissue so severe that they required plastic surgery to just to be able to open their hands again."
So why Peloton other than it's hip to say bad things about Peloton? Is that the value of that child's life, not to learn, but to be hip?
- dragonwriter 6y ago> So why Peloton other than it's hip to say bad things about Peloton? Because Peloton, unlike other treadmill manufacturers for which CPSC has recommended a recall and published safety guidance, opposes the recall and the safety guidance. There have been lots of safety recalls for treadmills and similar fitness gear (which is probably an indicator that more up-front regulation is needed), but manufacturers publicly rejecting recalls and safety guidance after large groups of injuries (including a fatality) is a different story.