Exercise Equipment That Can Be Dangerous - Dr. Beyer
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You were probably as shocked as we were when Dave Goldberg, the CEO of SurveyMonkey and husband of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, died after falling and hitting his head on a treadmill during a family vacation in Mexico. And we were even more shocked to find that treadmill-related deaths aren’t altogether that uncommon. According to data from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, 30 cases of treadmill-associated deaths in the U.S. have been reported in the ten years between 2003 and 2012, averaging out to about three deaths per year.