According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), more than 11 million cribs, bassinets and play yards have been recalled between 2009-2011. Check below to see if your brand of crib has been recalled. Parents must also be vigilant about the safety of their crib. Check that your crib meets all the safety requirements (slat width, parts are intact, etc.) Used cribs pose a threat to the safety of children. Since cribs are the only child product manufactured expressly for leaving a child unattended, every crib must meet current safety standards. Beginning June 28, 2011 all cribs sold in the United States must meet new federal requirements for overall crib safety. We do not recommend that you try to repair a damaged or worn crib. If you insist on repairing a crib yourself, use only parts supplied or recommended by the manufacturer. When in doubt, throw it out! IKEA Recalls Crib Mattresses Due to Violation of Federal Flammability Standard (9/8/15) Baby’s Dream Recalls Cribs and Furniture Due to Violation of Lead Paint Standard (5/08/15)
IKEA Expands Recall of Crib Mattresses Due to Risk of Entrapment (5/01/15) Dream on Me Recalls 2-in-1 Bassinet to Cradle Due to Fall and Suffocation Hazards (3/3/15) IKEA Recalls Crib Mattresses Due to Risk of Entrapment (1/13/15) Oeuf Recalls to Repair Cribs Due to Entrapment Hazard (7/22/14) Dream On Me Recalls Cradle Gliders Due to Infant Fall Hazard (11/13/13) Rockland Furniture Round Cribs (8/26/13) Nan Far Woodworking Recalls Rockland Furniture Round Cribs Due to Entrapment, Suffocation and Fall Hazards; Sold Exclusively at jcpenney (7/23/13) PT Domusindo Perdana Recalls Drop-Side Cribs Due to Entrapment and Suffocation Hazards; Sold Exclusively at JC Penney (3/26/13) Five Retailers Agree to Stop Sale and Recall Tots in Mind Crib Tents Due to Strangulation and Entrapment Hazard One Death and Serious Brain Injury Reported (5/16/12 Nan Far Woodworking Recalls to Repair Drop-Side Cribs Due to Entrapment, Suffocation and Fall Hazards; Sold Exclusively at jcpenney (4/12/12)
Dutailier Group Recalls Drop-Side Cribs Due to Entrapment and Fall Hazards (11/2/11) Yu Wei Recalls Drop-Side Cribs Sold Exclusively at jcpenney Due to Entrapment and Suffocation Hazards (10/5/11) Shermag Recalls to Repair Drop-Side Cribs Due to Entrapment, Suffocation and Fall Hazards (9/29/11) CPSC estimates there are still 20,000,000 unsafe cribs in use or lurking in storage and remain on the agencies Most Wanted List. According to the CPSC’s December 2015 “Injuries and Deaths associated with Nursery Products Among Children Younger than Age Five” report: In 2015, there were an estimated 65,800 emergency department-treated injuries associated with nursery products among children under the age of 5. Cribs/Mattresses, Play Yards/Playpens, Bassinets/Cradles accounted for 15,300 estimated injuries and are the leading cause of death and injury among all nursery products. Cribs/Mattresses, Bassinets/Cradles, Playpens/Play Yards were associated with 72% of the all fatalities reported.
Parents in our society have gotten progressively more conscious of their own health and that of their children in recent years, and as a result of this ever-progressing mentality several companies have formulated products that are designed to provide parents with the ability to care for their children without taking unnecessary risks. One of those recent innovations is that of the drop-side crib, which tended to allow parents to either place their children in or remove them from their cribs without suspending the child in an awkward position.Unfortunately, many of these drop-side cribs have been found to be defective, leading to massive recalls. Below youll find information regarding the nature of drop-side cribs, the details surrounding the most recent large-scale drop-side crib recall, the dangers and reports that led to this unprecedented action and finally how you should proceed in contacting an Arizona defective products lawyer if your child has been harmed by these dangerous products.
Drop-side cribs have been selling in massive numbers across North America and the rest of the world in recent years for many reasons. One of the main purposes of this design was to allow for the convenient placement and removal of the child from the crib without having to reach over the side. This results in what in theory was a safer process both for the parent and the child.Based on pure market analysis, this idea seemed to catch on quite well with consumer parents. The companies involved in the latest drop-side crib recalls include Evenflo, Delta Enterprise Corp., Child Craft, Jardine Enterprises, LaJobi, Million Dollar Baby, and Simmons Juvenile Products. These companies have sold millions of these kinds of cribs in the US.Unfortunately, these drop-side cribs have also been the target of much in the way of scrutiny from consumers who have been harmed, government officials in more than one country and defective products lawyers. There have been several problems that have been encountered, but the recall announced recently centers on whats being termed a manufacturing problem.
Stork Craft Manufacturing initiated what was to be the largest crib recall in the history of the United States in 2009 because of the tendency for the drop sides on these cribs to fail a few years ago. Specifically, these drop sides have shown a troubling tendency to either fall off altogether or to come loose and be pushed out from the inside because of the pressure applied by the sleeping infant when he or she rolls over onto the side of the rail.According to the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the models affected by the Stork Craft Manufacturing drop-side crib recall include:Stork Craft cribs with manufacturing and distribution dates between January 1993 and October 2009. This recall also includes Stork Craft cribs with the Fisher-Price logo that have manufacturing dates between October 1997 and December 2004. The Stork Craft cribs with the Fisher-Price logo were first sold in the U.S. in July 1998 and in Canada in September 1998. The cribs were sold in various styles and finishes.
The manufacture date, model number, crib name, country of origin, and the firms name, address, and contact information are located on the assembly instruction sheet attached to the mattress support board. The firms insignia storkcraft baby or storkling is inscribed on the drop-side teething rail of some cribs. In Stork Craft cribs that contain the Fisher-Price logo, this logo can be found on the cribs teething rail, in the manufacturers instructions, on the assembly instruction sheet attached to the mattress support board, and on the end panels of the Twinkle-Twinkle and Crystal crib models.This initial recall of drop-side cribs fueled other manufacturers to investigate the safety of their cribs. With help from the CPSC, defects and design issues were identified and affected products were recalled. The latest drop-side crib recalls include over 2 millions cribs and is now the largest in US history. The affected cribs were manufactured by these companies:With the latest drop-side crib recalls, 9 million cribs have been recalled in the past several years.
The overriding reason that this enormous recall has been initiated is due to reports of statistics that are nothing less than daunting. Drop-side cribs have been blamed for in the deaths of 32 infants and toddlers since 2000, with many more child deaths suspected to be linked to the drop-side crib problem. The children suffocated when they rolled over onto the side of the mattress and pushed out the drop side of the crib, creating a space large enough to fall into but too small to maneuver. As a result, these infants died of suffocation.In addition to deaths, officials have received at least 110 reports of infants who were seriously injured either because of the space created when rolling into the drop side or because the drop side fell off completely, leading to the obvious danger of the child falling out of the crib and sustaining serious injuries.The CPSC has strongly recommended that anyone using these drop-side cribs stop doing so immediately. The manufacturers have offered to ship affected consumers a repair kit that will convert the drop side into a permanent side.