The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, or CPSC, announced a voluntary recall by Barbados-based Dorel Asia SRL to replace about 635,000 drop side and non-drop side cribs, citing suffocation and strangulation hazards to infants and toddlers. The recall was prompted by the death of an infant as well as reports of broken crib slats and drop-side hardware. The cribs, manufactured in China and Vietnam, were sold at Sears Holdings Corp. (SHLD), Wal-Mart Inc. (WMT) and K-Mart stores nationwide from January 2005 through December 2009, for between $120 and $700. Twenty models of the cribs are being recalled. The CPSC warned that consumers should immediately stop using the recalled cribs until replacement kits from Dorel Asia are obtained and installed.
CPSC said the agency and Dorel Asia received a report of the death of a 6-month old child from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who became entrapped and strangled in a crib after the drop side hardware broke. The agency and the company also received reports of 31 drop side incidents.
In six of those incidents, children were entrapped between the drop side and crib mattress, while three children suffered from bruises as a result of the entrapment. In addition, CPSC and Dorel Asia received reports of 36 incidents of slat breakage, including seven reports of bruises and scratches to children, and two reports of entrapment, but no injuries.
CPSC warned that the drop side hardware can fail, causing the drop side to detach from the crib. When the drop side detaches, it creates a space in which an infant or toddler can become entrapped and suffocate or strangle.
The recalled cribs can also pose a serious entrapment and strangulation hazard when a slat is damaged. This can occur while the crib is in use, in storage, being put together, taken apart or reassembled; or during shipping and handling, the agency noted.
Meanwhile, Dorel Asia said it is offering repair kits, free of charge. The company also said that the CPSC investigator's report on the infant death that reportedly occurred in a Dorel Asia crib had stated that infant had fallen out of the crib a month earlier. The crib was known to be broken before that when it was used with an older child.
"After the incident, the parents then put "duct tape" on the crib to hold it together. Both parents were arrested for "child endangerment with death" and the father had additional drug charges", Dorel Asia said.
Further, the company said that the CPSC investigator's report indicated the child was put to sleep with a thick afghan in the crib. According to the company, its instructions strongly warn against this practice because thick bedding is a known hazard to children.
In November, the CPSC had announced a voluntarily recall of more than 2.1 million drop-side cribs by Canada-based Stork Craft Manufacturing, Inc., citing potential infant entrapment and suffocation hazard. The recall included about 1.21 million units distributed in the U.S. and 0.97 million units distributed in Canada, with a total of 0.15 million Stork Craft drop-side cribs with the Fisher-Price logo.
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