Experts offer tips to keep children safe from inflatable bounce house injuries
The number of injuries from inflatable bounce houses has skyrocketed over the last 20 years to more than 30 children injured each day, about one every 45 minutes, and some of the injuries were severe or even fatal, according to the Child Injury Prevention Alliance.
More than 113,000 people were injured in inflatables from 2003 to 2013, most of them children.
‘Inflatables aren’t baby sitters’: How to keep kids safe in bounce houses
(CNN) — If you have children, you know bounce houses (or bouncy houses, as we call them at home) are about as universally loved by kids as ice cream cones on a summer day and gobs of candy on Halloween.
See bounce house, run toward it: That pretty much sums up the experience of most toddlers and elementary schoolers. But for some parents, like this reporter, the feeling about these inflatables is more along the lines of “accident waiting to happen.”
A witness’ picture of a bounce house blowing through the air in South Glens Falls on Monday, well after children inside had fallen out. Three children were hurt, two seriously.
Commercial trampoline parks are springing up all over the country – including one in Greenbrier – offering what their operators describe as an “extreme-sport” experience in a safe, controlled setting.
