Police: Child impaled by dresser in household accident in Delco

HAVERFORD, Pa. - March 22, 2012

The incident happened around 2:30 p.m. at a home on the 1400 block of Robinson Avenue in Haverford Township.

According to police, a 3-year-old boy was jumping up and down on a bed when he took a bad fall.

His cheek came in contact with a pointed hinge of a dresser.

The hinge went through his cheek and rescue crews had to cut the hinge from the dresser.

Officials airlifted the boy with the hinge still in his cheek onboard a medical helicopter to CHOP.

Authorities say the boy is not in any danger.

Medics say the child is in stable condition.

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