A six-year-old little girl was almost blinded by a metal hook when she reached for a shirt in a supermarket.
Little Cecilia Chan punctured her eye socket on a metal rack and had part of her eyelid ripped off in the horror incident.
The youngster was with her grandmother when she reached for a shirt and lost her balance at a Kmart store in Sydney, Australia Nine News reports.
One month prior and also in Sydney, five-year-old Saad impaled his eye on a metal hook while shopping with his mum and sister at a Target store in April.
Both retail giants have been forced to make safety changes across their Australian stores following the incidents.
Little Saad was initially blinded and required almost two hours of reconstructive surgery to repair his tear duct which was torn in the accident.
His parents say it is lucky their son did not lose his eye when he collided with the end of a clothes rack and the metal hook became stuck in his eye.
Dad Adnan told Nine News: "My son’s toy fell on the ground and as he went down to pick it up the hook went into his eye.
“He started shouting and so my wife tried to pull it out.
"It tore his eyelid, and when she pulled it out there was blood all over. And she started screaming also."
After reviewing Cecilia's accident, Kmart Australia has considered several options for improving the "apparel arm" hook which it uses company wide, a spokesperson said.
The company plans to place plastic covers on all of these arm hooks by early next year following a successful trial in some of its stores.
Target, which is owned by the same company Wesfarmers, will also introduce the arm hook safety covers.
The nationwide rollout will involve around 1.2 million caps to cover every apparel hook at Kmart stores and 900,000 caps for Target stores.
Cecilia's mother Jill Huang said she was happy with the plans to improve store safety at Kmart and Target stores.
But she is upset the changes were not introduced sooner to prevent her daughter's traumatic injuries which have left her family heartbroken.
Jill said: "They're doing the right thing. What I want now is for no other kids to get injured like Cecilia was.
"If they had made those changes earlier then Cecilia would not have gotten injured.
"It was very scary and Cecilia was in a lot of pain. We were heartbroken."
Little Cecilia's eye has recovered well, according to her mum, but looks noticeably different to her other eye.
She also has a scar on her eyelid.
