![]() ![]() Students are also expected to keep the bed rails in their room or apartment. Students and parents are not permitted to remove bed rails while the beds are in any position higher than thirty-six (36) inches at the top of the frame. In accordance with the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia requirements, bed rails must be used on all beds that are adjusted higher than thirty-six (36) inchesat the top of the frame.Beds must stay in the adjusted position placed by GT Housing or their authorized contractor. Students and/or parents are not permitted to raise or lower the beds themselves.You will find this language in the Georgia Tech Housing and Residence Life webpage: You can find information online that indicates that in at least a Georgia dorm room, a bedrail must be installed on the top bunk. Jacobs was able to convince the University System of Georgia (and all 26 state campuses) to become “rails ON” so that at residence hall check-in, every elevated bed has a safety rail in place to prevent injury. In Georgia, through the work of her foundation, Rail Against the Danger, Ms. Her son endured a long recovery at Shepherd Center with medical bills totaling over $1 Million dollars. Given the fact that she had witnessed her son’s injury and recuperation first hand from an incident that, arguably, never should have happened in the first place, Mariellen Jacobs has become quite an expert on this subject matter. Her attorneys petitioned the Georgia Supreme Court for Certiorari, but the Supreme Court declined to hear this case earlier this year, which means the Georgia Court of Appeals’ opinion stands.įollowing my September 2020 blog on college bedrails, Mariellen Jacobs, Clark Jacobs’s mother, reached out to me to discuss this ongoing problem. That woman sued the Georgia Board of Regents and lost her case in the Georgia Court of Appeals. I blogged about this incident last year and about a similar incident that happened to a young woman who was a student at Valdosta State University. Five years and hundreds of hours of therapy later, including in-patient rehabilitation at Shepherd Center, Clark graduated from Georgia Tech in the summer of 2020. He was diagnosed with a fractured skull and a brain bleed which then led to a stroke. He fell 7 feet from his bed to the hard floor of his room. This issue came to light several years ago when Clark Jacobs, then a Georgia Tech student, fell out of his lofted bed in his fraternity house. This student will be safe when sleeping in this high bunk bed. The photograph above makes me happy because it shows a high bunk bed with a bedrail installed. And this is the problem: no high bunk bed in any college dorm room should be without a bedrail installed. The personal injury attorney in me can’t help but notice on the many dorm room photos online of how many of the high bunk beds have bedrails installed versus how many don’t. This is a rite-of-passage for many young people as they begin their college careers and are perhaps living away from their home and their parents for the first time in their lives. I have been enjoying seeing posts on social media of families taking their college-aged kids to their colleges and universities and helping them move in to their dorm rooms. ![]()
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