Attention Parents: Massive Recall of Drop-side Cribs Expected Tuesday
A sweeping recall of cribs, which have been blamed for causing dozens of infant deaths and serious injuries in recent years, will be announced tomorrow, product safety officials said.
In an unusual move, officials with the Consumer Product Safety Commission stole their own thunder today by leaking news of the coming recall a day early. Key details of the recall were not unveiled – such as the number of cribs to be recalled and brand names involved – but industry watchers are expecting the recall to center on drop-side cribs.
“There is a crib recall tomorrow, and it’s going to be really important for all parents to pay attention,” said Scott Wolfson, spokesman for the Consumer Product Safety Commission, according to a CNNmoney.com report. “There is also a larger effort by CPSC to put in mandatory rules to make all cribs safer.”
Dangerous Infant Beds
Drop-side cribs have been a subject of scrutiny and recalls in recent years. The infant beds are designed with one movable side that drops up and down to make it easier for parents to lift a baby in or out, but they have been blamed for causing strangulation and suffocation deaths and severe injuries in children.
In many cases, children got their head, neck, arms, hands, feet, and legs stuck in the openings between the drop side and the crib frame, causing life-threatening injuries as well as broken bones and bruising.
Earlier Crib Recalls
More than 5 million cribs, bassinets and play yards have been recalled since the beginning of 2007, according to the CPSC.
One of the largest crib recalls was announced in July 2009 and involved 400,000 Simplicity drop-side cribs. That recall followed another, earlier action in September 2008 involving about 600,000 of the company’s drop-side cribs, bringing to the total recalled of Simplicity cribs to about one million.
The rash of recalls involving drop-side cribs prompted some local authorities, such as Suffolk County, New York, to institute bans on the infant beds. Crib industry leaders even got into the act by announcing they would stop making drop-side cribs, although that agreement still needs to be finalized to go into effect.
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