Posted on 12/12/2024 3:20:29 AM PST by Red Badger
A grandmother died after she was pinned against a wall for two days by her Sleep Number bed, according to a new lawsuit.
Rosalind Walker, from Godfrey, Illinois, was left trapped between the bed and wall of her bedroom on March 1 2023 after it 'lowered itself without warning'.
Two days later on March 3, emergency responders managed to free the 80-year-old and she was taken to hospital.
In a lawsuit brought by her daughter Angela Moan, it says Walker was taken to a rehab center and then brought home into hospice.
Moan, who is going after Sleep Number and manufacturer Leggett & Platt, claims that until her mother passed away on April 3 2023 she 'suffered the entire time'.
Her suit is seeking compensation for Walker's suffering and injuries as well as medical bills in excess of $25,000.
It alleges that Sleep Number 'designed and sold a bed that did not have adequate instructions or cautionary language, alerting Mrs. Walker not to go between the bed and the wall as she could be trapped.'
The company is also accused of having 'designed and sold a bed that did not have an adequate audible warning alerting Mrs. Walker it was declining'.
It adds that the bed 'did not have an appropriate release mechanism which would have allowed Mrs. Walker to free herself'.
The lawsuit says that both companies 'designed, manufactured, marketed, sold and warrantied the Sleep Number bed.'
The suit continues: 'This negligence was the proximate cause of Mrs. Walker's injuries, suffering, and she died.'
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Can’t make these Final Destination scenarios up.
I’ve got an adjustable bed and there’s no way in hell I could get between the frame and wall when it’s fully upright nor would I even try to.
There’s more to the story.
I think she just rolled over in the middle of the night and fell off the bed and got stuck..................
Poor lady. That must have been so frightening and confusing.
No one expects an ordinary piece of furniture to immobilize you, leaving you trapped and alone in your bedroom.
Corporations being what they are, will first try to figure out how much of the incident was User Error.
talk about freak accidents...the only thing I cam picture in my head is going between the head of the bed and the wall but...why would anyone do that?
WTF?
Smart bed of death attacks in the night when you’re disoriented.
Best to stick with the floor.
My guess is that she had dropped something in that slot. She might have put the bed up thinking she could get in there and retrieve it. I think I would pull the bed away from the wall, but maybe at her age she felt she couldn’t. How heavy are these beds? And how did she manage to hit the recline button on the controller?
Does Biden have time to ban attack beds between now and January 20? Given his age, he should be alert to such dangers.
Seriously, some graphics are required for this one.
RIP Rosalind
Darwin Award. Well...no.
Yep - as the saying goes, you can make anything fool-proof, but you can’t make anything damn-fool-proof...
Sorry for the old lady - but sometimes tragic accidents happen due to on-the-scene human error.
Pics or it didn’t happen.
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I guess her sleep number was up.
There’s always more to the story!
When I want to sweep/dust under the head of our adjustable bed, I put the head top all the way up and reach into the floor area. Our tv remote has also slid down and have crawled in to get it. So if the mattress remote somehow put the mattress down I would be trapped. (I won’t mention this to my husband)
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