A western Sydney mom is looking to change the safety measures in retail stores after an incident nearly left her two-year-old blinded.

Maureen Ahluwalia was with her daughter Amaira and sister-in-law at her local Blacktown Westpoint shopping center on July 8 when the incident occurred.

Ahluwalia said her daughter was walking right beside her – as she commonly does – when the scary incident happened.

“She’s just turned and the rack hook’s gone in her eye. I tried to calm her down, literally her eyelid was inside out,” she told NewsWire. 3

“I saw when she opened her eye that there’s blood coming into it.”

Ahluwalia’s sister-in-law advised taking Amaira to Specsavers in the shopping center, who took her in immediately and gave some relieving news.

“They said she didn’t scratch her

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