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Making household products safer.(Have You Heard?)(Brief article)
There's something ghoulish about the term "deadman control," but it's an apt description. Before that safety device was required on walk-behind mowers in 1983, the machines injured some 78,000 people a year.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission worked for years to mandate a safer mower, enlisting Consumers Union to develop the new standard. One of our recommendations was a required deadman control, which must be held by the operator for the mower blade to turn. Once the control is released, the blade must stop spinning within 3 seconds, thereby avoiding injuries that had resulted when blades kept whirling.
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Our mower report on page 22 includes a robotic mower we believe to be a safety hazard. That got me thinking about other products that have caused CU to raise a red flag.
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