Falls at Home
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For more than 10 years, SparkleTuff Anti-Slip Floor Coating has been stopping slip-and-fall injuries across the United States. It has been installed in hotels, shopping centers, food processing plants, yachts, bathtubs, theaters, parking structures, commercial kitchens, pool decks, and private homes—anywhere floors become dangerously slippery when wet. After a decade of proven success in the…
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The video below shows an outdoor level surface and stairs at a large mall, coated with transparent SparkleTuff™ Anti-Slip. A pedestrian walks down the stairs, which are partially wet from the previous day’s rain. With a material cost of about a dollar a square foot, SparkleTuff™ has excellent wet slip resistance by all respected test…
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Accidents on stairs can be serious and even fatal. We need to be attentive and play it safe. Always hold the handrail or (if you fear colds and flu) keep a free hand close to the handrail so you can grab it at any time. Hand sanitizer can help reduce the chance of getting sick,…
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Charlotte Fox, the first American woman to conquer three 26,000-foot or higher mountains and who miraculously survived a blizzard while descending after summiting Everest, has died at 61 after a fall on steep hardwood stairs at her Telluride, Colorado home. Her obituary was published by the New York Times on June 8. The Everest near-death…



