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August 18, 2009
CPSC Releases Top Ten List of Defective Children’s Products: Part I
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced this week its top ten list of recalled children’s products that have either caused significant injuries to children and/or child death. If a loved one has been injured by any one of these products, you and/or your loved one may have a personal injury or wrongful death claim against the manufacturer or vendor of the product—but only if you act immediately.
The list of the first five recalled child products is provided below. See tomorrow’s blog entry for information on the next five.
- Playskool Travel Lite Play Yards: Side rails of the portable crib fold during use, creating a risk of entrapment and suffocation. Three deaths have been reported.
- Evenflo Happy Camper Play Yards: The play yard can collapse and trap the child in the “V” formed by the collapsed top rails. Additionally, the rotating plastic hinges can crack and break, presenting a sharp edge or allowing the child to escape. Three wrongful deaths have been reported.
- Baby Trend Home and Roam and Baby Express Portable Cribs and Play Yards: This defective product has been recalled because it too can collapse and entrap infants and toddlers. On January 2001, for example, a 9-month old baby died of asphyxiation when her neck was caught in the “V” created by the collapsed top sides. Three other strangulation/entrapment deaths have been reported in addition to three reports of babies who were found not breathing but later revived.
- Magnetix Magnetic Building Sets: Inside the plastic building pieces and rods are tiny magnets that can fall out. Not only do these tiny magnets present a choking hazard, but they can also attract to each other in the stomach and cause intestinal perforation or blockage. One death has been reported and 27 serious personal injuries.
- Easy Bake Ovens: Young children can insert their hands into the oven's front opening and get their hands or fingers caught, posing entrapment and burn hazards. Since February 2007, Easy Bake has received 249 reports of children getting their hands or fingers caught in the oven's opening, including 77 reports of burns, 16 of which were reported as second and third-degree burns. Easy Bake also received one report of a serious burn that required a partial finger amputation to a 5-year-old girl.
For more information, click on this link for US Recall News.
Contact one of our defective product attorneys in Tennessee at Baker Associates to discuss your case by calling 866-853-2888.
