Boy, 2, killed by falling fireplace while dancing to Cocomelon TV show
A two-year-old boy died when a TV and marble fireplace toppled over and struck his head while he danced along to Cocomelon, an inquest has heard.
Carter Walsh was watching the children’s musical series when the freak accident occurred at his home in Wigan on September 18.
The flatscreen TV weighing up to 30kg was resting atop the fireplace and neither was fitted to the living room wall, Bolton Coroners’ Court was told.
Carter was knocked unconscious and went into cardiac arrest.
He was taken by ambulance to Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Wigan. But he could not be revived and was declared dead the same afternoon.
Detective Inspector Stuart Woodhead told the inquest: ‘I believe he had gone towards the fireplace and potentially grabbed the mantelpiece.
‘He didn’t suffer, he didn’t know what was going on. It was an instantaneous event.’
Concluding the death was an accident, Greater Manchester West area coroner Peter Sigee told his family: ‘I give my condolences and I am so sorry we have had to meet in such tragic circumstances.’
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