Falling Merchandise 7NEWS Boston Special Reports

It's a shopping phenomenon: the warehouse store. Shops where the prices are kept low and the inventory is kept high high above your head."It's a way of creating an image for the consumer that they've got all these items for sale. But it's also a way of saving space for them, they can put the warehouse over your head."

sky shelving, a term for storage ten feet and higher, has become a trademark of the retail warehouse. But if not properly maintained, these high stacked shelves could pose life threatening risks to the consumer.

In Danbury, Connecticut: a pallet of wood fell and killed a 41 year old man.

And in Virginia Beach, Virginia a two year old girl was killed when an entertainment center fell on her."Stuff was stacked Nike Free Dam way up in the air, I mean it could have hit anybody."

A safe shopping environment is something that customers like Terry Stone Expect.

Terry Stone, Victim

"I was just doing what almost everybody does, looking for Christmas toys."

But then a seven pound box containing a rocking horse fell from a high shelf and hit her head.

Terry Stone

"I ended up having two surgeries at the back of my head. I still have constant pain."

But despite the danger, some stores insist that customers should take notice of where they shop.

Mike Barker, Warehouse Store Spokesman

"It is a working warehouse. We are going to provide a safe environment, but situationally, this is not a grocery store."

But most consumers don't understand the risks working warehouses pose because these stores Billiga Nike Free Run can legally keep nearly all of their customer injury statistics a secret. Currently, government agencies protect the workers in these stores, but consumer injuries are out of their jurisdiction.

, State Representative

"There's no requirement that there be a reporting of these accidents on these warehouse type of premises."

State Representative filed legislation that may change that."The bill requires whatever the type of warehouse or retail outlet store that Nike Free Herr it is, to collect information on accidents that happen on their premises and report them to the department of labor."

Falling merchandise injuries are increasing. one warehouse type store testified it gets 185 claims a week. And other stores are concerned"You can talk about numbers and sat that they're rising or declining but the bottom line is if there's one incident in any retailer, that's probably one too many."

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