Office of Information and Public Affairs | Washington, DC 20207 |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 29, 1999 Release # 99-175 |
CPSC Consumer Hotline: (800) 638-2772 CPSC Media Contact: Ken Giles, (301) 504-7052 |
Fatality Scenario |
Sleeping Environment |
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Adult Bed |
Waterbed |
Daybed |
Portable |
Total |
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Wedging between mattress and wall |
125 |
3 |
|
|
128 |
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Wedging between mattress and bed frame, headboard or footboard |
128 |
8 |
6 |
142 |
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Entrapment between mattress and adjacent furniture |
20 |
20 |
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Strangulation between bed railings |
23 |
|
4 |
|
27 |
|
Entrapment between portable bed rail and mattress |
9 |
9 |
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Suffocation on a waterbed mattress |
68 |
68 |
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Total (entrapment) |
296 |
79 |
10 |
9 |
394 |
|
Co-sleeping death (rolling on top of or against baby while sleeping) |
108 |
13 |
|
|
121 |
|
Total (entrapment + co-sleeping) |
404 |
92 |
10 |
9 |
515 |