Video's warning to parents: Anchor your furniture

It is such an issue that the US Shopper Product Security Fee has launched a nationwide marketing campaign known as Anchor it!, recommending that furnishings similar to dressers and bookshelves be bolted to a wall.

"Get on high of it earlier than they do," the company advises. "The risk is severe, however the resolution is easy."

The security fee says there are about 33,000 emergency department-related accidents a 12 months because of TV or furnishings tipping over -- the bulk being head accidents.

Most furnishings comes with directions and gear to correctly bolt it down, however many shoppers toss these supplies out. The security fee advises that taking an additional 5 minutes to make use of them can save a baby's life.

Tipover accidents killed 489 individuals from 2000 to 2015, together with 411 kids ranging in age from 1 month to 14 years previous, in response to a Shopper Product Security Fee report launched in August (PDF).

That quantities to a baby being killed by falling furnishings or TVs each two weeks.

Within the video that spead on-line this week, 2-year-old brothers Brock and Bowdy Shoff are seen climbing on the open drawers of the dresser of their room. The dresser topples over; Bowdy escapes hurt whereas Brock will get wedged beneath the fallen dresser. Fortunately, his head goes into the slot of an open drawer as an alternative of getting banged in opposition to the ground.

Seeing his brother pinned beneath the dresser, Bowdy walks round and lifts it whereas Brock wiggles out, crying.

The video, which has been seen greater than four million occasions on YouTube, was captured by a nanny cam. Mom Kayli Shoff was watching it on her cellphone about eight:30 a.m. Friday.

"I simply noticed the dresser had fallen down -- and no youngsters to be seen," she informed CNN's "New Day" on Thursday. "So I leap away from bed."

When she burst into her boys' bed room, they had been "simply quietly enjoying of their room within the nook," she stated.

The dad and mom weren't precisely certain what had occurred at that time. Father Ricky Shoff instantly pulled up the video to look at all the incident.

"My coronary heart dropped, as you possibly can think about," he stated.

However his coronary heart swelled when he noticed Bowdy carry the dresser to assist his brother. "He is fairly powerful," Ricky Shoff stated.

The 2 searched Brock for any accidents and could not imagine he wasn't harm, acknowledging how lucky he was. "Not even scratched," the daddy stated.

The dad and mom waited a couple of days earlier than posting the video on-line, "as a result of it is exhausting to look at," Kayli Shoff stated.

The daddy posted the video on his Fb web page, and it instantly took off.

Many dad and mom have reached out to the Shoffs, saying they've bolted down their furnishings since watching the video. "That is the very first thing we did, clearly, the second this occurred," Ricky Shoff stated. "I received all my instruments out and did it, put it up on the partitions."

And that is their message, very similar to that of the Shopper Product Security Fee's marketing campaign: Anchor it.