Warner, Kaine urge stricter safety standards for beach umbrellas

Concerns that some beach umbrellas can be unsecured and prone to flying, causing serious injury or death, prompted Virginia's senators to push for safer design standards for those umbrellas. Democratic Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine recently wrote to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, urging the organization to finalize new safety standards released earlier this year for beach umbrellas by the American Society of Testing Materials. The standards, they wrote, need to be updated to reflect new safety requirements. According to a release from the senators’ offices, an estimated 3,000 people are sent to the emergency room each year because...

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