Toppling TVs felling youngsters.

• Position: Household Accidents - Brief article

Adults need to be better educated about television's potential harm--not content or programming, but the physical danger of falling sets, according to a study by the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas.

Pediatricians reviewed a year's worth of emergency department cases involving children injured by television sets toppling over, usually because of climbing toddlers or someone accidentally knocking into the TV. "Our data indicates a lack of parental awareness and an absence of primary prevention as a root cause for this problem," warns Floyd Ota, assistant professor of pediatrics.

More than 98% of homes in the U.S. have at least one television and one household out of every four purchases a new model each year, reports the Consumer Electronics Association. That turnover pattern...