and click on "Recall Information" for more information. Report an Incident Involving this Product WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Ace Bayou Corp., of New Orleans, La., are reannouncing the voluntary recall of about 2.2 million bean bag chairs sold from 1995 to 2013. Only 790 consumers, who purchased the bean bag chairs, have responded to the recall. CPSC and Ace Bayou are urging consumers to install the free repair kit to permanently disable the bean bag chairs' zippers so that they cannot be opened. CPSC is extremely concerned that these recalled bean bag chairs are continuing to be used by children. The foam beads inside the chairs are serious suffocation and choking hazards for children. Two children died after suffocating on the chair's foam beads. An additional incident has been reported to CPSC involving a 6 year old boy who opened bean bag and reportedly swallowed some foam beads and had others in his nose and mouth.
The recalled bean bag chairs have two zippers, including an outer zipper that does not have a pull tab and another zipper directly underneath that zipper. Although the outer zipper on the bean bag chair does not have a pull tab, children can open it. Once they have opened the outer zipper, they can open the inner zipper which contains the foam beads and crawl inside. Children can suffocate or choke on these foam beads. The voluntary standard requires non-refillable bean bag chairs to have closed and permanently disabled zippers. Ace met the voluntary standard's requirement for a warning label. The two deaths involved a 13-year old boy from McKinney, Texas died and a 3-year-old girl from Lexington, Ky. who suffocated from lack of air and inhaling the chair's foam beads. Both children were found inside the chairs. The recalled chairs with zippers that can be opened were sold in a variety of sizes, shapes, colors and fabrics. They include round or L-shaped, vinyl or fabric, and are filled with polystyrene foam beads.
They were sold in a variety of colors, including purple, violet, blue, red, pink, yellow, Kelly green, black, port, navy, lime, royal blue, turquoise, tangerine and multi-color. The round bean bag chairs were sold in three sizes, 30, 32 and 40 inches in diameter. The L-shaped bean bag chair measures 18 inches wide by 30 inches deep by 30 inches high. "ACE BAYOU CORP" is printed on a tag sewn into the bean bag chair's cover seam. They were made in China. , , and other websites from 1995 to 2013 for between $30 and $100. To prevent another death, consumers should check the outside zipper on their bean bag chair to ensure that it has a metal staple to disable the outer zipper. If it does not have a metal staple, take the recalled bean bag chair away from children immediately and contact Ace Bayou for the free repair kit to permanently disable the zipper. Ace Bayou bean bag chair b-roll available at: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of
thousands of types of consumer products under the agency’s jurisdiction. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the nation more than $1 trillion annually. CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical orCPSC's work to help ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters and household chemicals -– contributed to a decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 40 years. Federal law bars any person from selling products subject to a publicly-announced voluntary recall by a manufacturer or a mandatory recall ordered by the To report a dangerous product or a product-related injury go online to www.SaferProducts.gov or call CPSC's Hotline at 800-638-2772 or teletypewriter at 301-595-7054 for the hearing impaired. Consumers can obtain news release and recall information at www.cpsc.gov, on Twitter @USCPSC or by subscribing
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The little boy was rushed to the hospital, where he was declared brain dead and later died.The tragedy has left his family reeling and struggling to make sense of what happened. “My heart really hurts. How does somebody do that? I’m just trying to figure all of that out. It’s hard to understand,” the boy’s father, Dan Sanchez, told TIME. “He’s about three feet tall. He’s not a tiny 2-year-old.”It’s unclear how long the boy was under the beanbag chair. Police said the incident is under investigation, and there have been no arrests or charges filed. The case will also be sent to the Salt Lake District Attorney’s Office for review.Leonardo, whose heart was donated to another child, will be buried Saturday on his birthday. Family members and friends will say goodbye to the rambunctious boy who knew how to beatbox, just learned how to say “cricket” and loved giving hugs and pretending to fish. “He just loved everything. He loved playing ball, hearing music,” said his mother, Danielle Sanchez.Leonardo’s parents recalled feeling very confused about why their little boy was being rushed to the emergency room.
“Once we learned, I kept repeating back, ‘Are you telling me a teacher sat on my kid?” the boy’s mom said.The couple’s initial feelings of confusion quickly turned into outrage. I go through the cycle of the grieving process,” the boy’s mom said.Now they’re working to be strong for Leonardo’s three other young siblings and turn their tragedy into a positive change. Specifically, they want to fight to ban beanbag chairs from childcare facilities. “This can’t happen to anyone else. This can’t be OK,” said Dan Sanchez, 35. “The realization of it is these specific kind of chairs that we’re calling beanbags are not safe.”The West Jordan Child Center issued a statement to by Fox 13, saying "We regret deeply the tragic death of a young toddler at our daycare facility." "No words adequately describe the depth of the sorrow we feel. And, of course, we do not pretend to understand how devastating this is for the family," the statement said. "We know the family well, we grieve with them, and we pray that God will provide them the comfort and peace they inevitably will need.”