Massive Crib Recall Particularly Troubling for Day Care Operators
This week’s recall of more than two million drop-side cribs made by Stork Craft Manufacturing, including some carrying the Fisher-Price brand, was a major wake-up call to many parents and child caregivers about the very real risks of death and serious injury to children from defective infant beds.
But for operators of day care centers and others who have several defectively dangerous cribs in their possession, the largest crib recall in U.S. history is also a major headache and possible insurance liability issue.
Drop-Side Cribs Target of New Recall
Drop-side cribs have long been a focus of U.S. product safety officials. The sides of the beds, which are designed to be dropped and raised to make it easier to get babies in and out of bed, can wiggle loose or break, creating a gap between the side and frame. Children can become trapped in those gaps and be suffocated, strangled, or otherwise injured.
Hundreds of children have been killed or injured in defective cribs in recent years, leading to recalls of millions of infant beds. For day care operators and others who must supervise dozens of children who take naps in cribs, the risk of injury to children is increased because of the sheer number of children they care for.
Minn. Day Care Operator Torched Previously Recalled Cribs
Heidi Highet, a Minnesota day care center operator for more than four years, told Minneapolis TV affiliate KTTC that she reacted to an earlier crib recall by taking no chances of injuries to children in her care while sleeping in the defective infant beds.
“We took the thing apart, and sent it up with my dad, took it out in the back 40 (acres) and burned it,” Highet told the station.
Highet doesn’t own any drop-side cribs such as those involved in the latest crib recall, but if she did, we suspect she’d do the same thing again.
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