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Panasonic: TVs can tip, offers repair kit

Panasonic is recalling more than 750 flat screen TVs and stands over potentially dangerous hazards to children.

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Panasonic is recalling more than 750 flat screen TVs and stands over potentially dangerous hazards to children.

The recall includes Panasonic's 55-inch flat screen LED and LCD TVs with tabletop swivel stands. Most were sold to US schools, hotels and government buildings from 2012 to 2014.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the mounting screws connecting the TV to the stand can come loose and cause the TV to tip over.

The commission estimates that more than 43,000 people are hurt each year by tip-over incidents and about 25,000 of those are children under the age of 18. The injuries, including head trauma, can be severe. 349 people were killed between 2000 and 2011 when TVs, furniture or appliances fell on them. Of those 349 people, 84 percent of them were children younger than age 9.

No injuries have been reported.

Panasonic says it will give customers a free repair kit.

To order one, call Panasonic toll-free at 855-772-8324 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. ET Monday through Friday.

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