Posts Tagged ‘ suffocation hazard ’

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has announced that Pottery Barn Kids, a division of William-Sanoma Inc. of San Fransisco, CA, has issued a recallof certain of its dolls. The doll recall is based on a strangulation hazard presented by the hair on the Chloe, Sophie and Audrey dolls, which contains loops that...
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The family and friends of a 17 month old boy, Gabriel Josh-Cazir Pierre, are grieving over his tragic  death. During Monday’s high temperatures, the toddler was left unattended and unnoticed in a school transportation for close to seven hours. The facts revealed thus far suggest a number of allegedly negligent acts leading to such...
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A second infant death has prompted a re-announcement of a recall by Delta Enterprise of “Safety Peg” cribs. This recall involves 985,000 Delta Enterprise cribs, sold at Kmart, Target, and Walmart stores between January 1995 and December 2005 for approximately $100. This recall was first announced in 2008 when forty-nine models with a “crib...
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Children’s products provide our kids with opportunities for hours of enjoyment and learning. Unfortunately, improperly designed or manufactured playthings can also cause death and debilitating injury among the most innocent of victims. At Swartz & Swartz, P.C., we have long been a leader in the fight to rid our country’s store shelves and toy...
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Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan is fighting to place a ban on crib bumpers. Crib bumpers are pads that can be attached inside the crib to cushion babies from crib bars. Since 2008, there have been 14 infant deaths linked to crib bumper pads. Meanwhile, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in a...
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has approved new mandatory standards to address the hazards of cribs. In the last five years alone, the CPSC has announced recalls of over 9 million drop-side cribs due to hazards of strangulation and suffocation. According to the CPSC, since January 2000 there have been 32 infant...
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In October, 2010, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”) announced a recall of about 2 million Graco strollers due to risk of entrapment and strangulation. Reports surfaced that the manufacturer, Graco Children’s Products Inc., of Atlanta, Ga., received four reports of infant strangulations that occurred in its strollers between the years 2003 and...
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On September 29, 2010, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned consumers to stop using infant sleep positioners. In recent years, the government received 12 reports of infants (ages ranging from 1 month to 4 four months) who died when they suffocated in sleep positioners,...
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On August 24, 2010, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (“CPSC”) announced a recall of Infant and Toddler Hammocks manufactured in Malaysia and sold in the U.S. by MamaLittleHelper LLC, of Frisco, Texas. The hammocks in question were deemed defective because the side-to-side shifting or tilting of the hammock can cause an infant to...
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Health Canada (HC), in cooperation with Tots in Mind Inc., of Salem, N.H., is announcing that a recall was issued on July 15, 2010 of about 20,000 “Cozy Indoor Outdoor Portable Playard Tents Plus Cabana Kits”, sold in the United States by Tots in Mind Inc....
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