This could be the year that Harper’s law gets passed in New York. The bill is named for Harper Fried, killed in November 2016 when she was just three years old, after a dresser toppled onto her while she played in her room. Rockland Assemblyman Ken Zebrowski says the bill would require kids’ furniture to include tip-proof safety mechanisms…
Harper’s grandfather is Sandy Fried, former owner of the Spring Valley Tire Warehouse, and he says the tragedy that came to his family could happen to anyone, with similar injuries or deaths being suffered by kids every 24 minutes…
The Consumer Product Safety Commission says there were 195 fatalities between 2000 and 2016 because of furniture that tipped over.