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How Childproof Caps Ended America's Kitchen Killings in 1970
How Childproof Caps Ended America's Kitchen Killings in 1970
Every year before 1970 roughly 500 American children under five died from common household products like aspirin, furniture polish, and drain cleaner-items stored on low shelves with ordinary screw caps. What finally stopped those kitchen killings was not a warning label but a simple mechanical barrier that toddlers could not defeat: how did design - not language - change the death count?
In this episode, we tell how postwar consumer chemistry filled homes with lethal products, how fragmented data hid a national crisis until 1957…
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