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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“... sold a bed that did not have an adequate audible warning alerting Mrs. Walker it was declining ...”
I doubt many people would appreciate such an annoying feature.
I came here for the comments.....I’m disappointed.....maybe check back later
That occurred to me too. Who wants to hear the sound of a loud truck back-up alarm while you’re getting ready to sleep?
Sounds worse than getting run over by a reindeer.
I wish I could. I have no idea how to put graphics on FR.
Not sure, but this may have been one of the companies that stopped advertising on Rush when the Left was trying to get Rush banned. If so, enjoy the lawsuit, IDIOTS.
Geez, Granny has no estate to inherit...what can we do to hit the jack pot and cash in?
I’m going out on a limb to guess that an 80 year old woman did not shop for, select, bring home, or otherwise receive and set up this “hi-tech” bed without the knowledge and involvement of family members. Possibly the very ones suing.
I guess her number was up.
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[I doubt many people would appreciate such an annoying feature.]
Maybe something like a delivery vehicle backup signal? I imagine it would cause a lot of relationship friction.
I’ve got a Sleep Number bed. They are VERY heavy. I can’t pull it away from the wall. I think she must have lifted the head of the bed up to retrieve something and had the control in her hand and accidently activated it while reaching for something. No way could she have been between trapped BEHIND the bed UNLESS she stepped INSIDE the frame with the head up and then accidently activated the recline.
BTW I’ve stepped inside the frame at the head of the bed to make putting the kingsize fitted sheet on easier. I’ll remember this story when I do that again.
If you are changing the sheets and you have to get the farther corner of the sheet tucked over the mattress. always have your cell phone handy!
“Angela Moan” is a great name for a plaintiff.
Something of value fell between the head of the bed and the wall - or less actual value but a book she was reading etc.
If she was laying on the bed near the wall, and the bed suddenly deflated, and she was a very heavy person, I can see how she might have been swallowed up by the mattress, much like infants have been smothered while sleeping with its parents in a waterbed. Those beds have controls on both sides and the fully inflated side would have pushed her into the wall, especially if she WASN’T very big.
I can believe that this happened. We have a Sleep Number smart bed adjustable base; every so often it goes nuts. Seriously. Something happens to the controller and I’ll hit the down button to lower the head and the head will go the opposite direction, all the way up to vertical and no way to stop it. I have to unplug the bed to reset the whole thing, then go through the calibration procedure with the app on my phone to get it working correctly again. We’ve had it probably three years and I’d say it’s done it four or five times.
We had a Sleep Number for 6 years and hated it. The day it was delivered and the installer asked for the password to our wifi, I had serious doubts about whether we had made a good decision or not.
It did weird things it shouldn’t have, and I called it Christine like the car — definitely had a mind of its own. So I can believe this story.
A younger person might have the ability to defeat a problem like this, but an 80-year-old lady could have a problem.
Good to know.........
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