A 3-year-old boy was hospitalized after a jump off a bed nearly cost him his eye. Paramedics were called to the home on the 1400 Block of Robinson Avenue in Haverford Township Thursday. According to the woman who lives there, the 3-year-old boy she babysits was jumping on the bed and he fell. She says the pointed hinge of a…
A little boy was rushed to the hospital after being impaled on a piece of furniture inside a home in Havertown, Delaware County, Pa.
The victim, 3, fell inside a home on the 1400 block of Robinson Avenue, according to authorities.
A woman who lives at the home, who asked not to be identified, tells NBC10 that the boy was bouncing on the bed when he jumped off and impaled his left cheek -- just missing his eye -- on a sharp hinge of a dresser.
We don't know the extent of his injuries.
The boy was taken to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia with the handle still in his cheek. The woman who lives in the house says the child is expected to be OK.
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