"DROP SIDE" CRIB BRANDS RECALLED; THREE DEATHS TO INFANTS REPORTED
From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens1 Bronx; Bronx Injury Attorney)
A very sad thing is a baby crib recall because the crib in question causes accidents or hurts our youngest children. Nonetheless, such recalls are constant and an all too frequent occurrence.
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced the recall of all Generation 2 Worldwide and "ChildESIGNS" drop side cribs. Parents are warned that toddlers and infants may suffer serious injury or death due to a strangulation and suffocation hazard because of the design of the cribs.
Caretakers and parents are urged CPSC staff urges parents and caregivers to immediately stop using these cribs. Do not try to repair the crib.
The crib's plastic hardware can break and cause the drop side of the crib to come loose from a corner of the crib. When the drop side detaches, it creates a space into which an infant or toddler can roll and become trapped and suffer injury. When a child is trapped between the drop side and the crib mattress, there is a risk of the child accidentally suffocating or bring strangled or otherwise hurt.
Also, the crib's mattress support can come loose from the crib frame, creating a hazardous space in which an infant or toddler could become trapped and suffocate or strangle.
CPSC reports three infant deaths from suffocation. In tragic accidents, these children - from Ohio, Indiana and Virginia - became trapped and hurt between the crib mattress and the drop side when the drop side detached.
There are also reports of twenty other injuries in drop side incidents; of injury to children trapped when a drop side detached in a corner of the crib. In other accidents, children have also fallen out of the cribs and been hurt.
CPSC has received eight reports of mattress support detachment. In the space created by the detachment, three children became wedged between the crib frame and the sagging mattress and four children crawled out of the crib. There was one report of cuts and bruises.
Generation 2 went out of business in 2005, so there is limited information about the cribs. CPSC believes that there were more than 500,000 of these cribs sold to consumers. All Generation 2 Worldwide and "ChildESIGNS" drop side cribs are being recalled.
The recalled cribs were sold at numerous local furniture and retail stores including Buy Buy Baby, Kmart, and Walmart stores across the U.S. for between $70 and $150.
___________________
1Serving Queens neighborhoods of: Arverne, Astoria, Auburndale, Bayside, Beechhurst, Bellaire, Belle Harbor, Bellerose, Blissville, Breezy Point, Briarwood, Broad Channel, Cambria Heights, College Point, Corona, Douglaston, East Elmhurst, Edgemere, Elmhurst, Far Rockaway, Flushing, Forest Hills, Fresh Meadows, Fresh Pond, Glen Oaks, Glendale, Hillcrest, Hollis, Holliswood, Howard Beach, Hunters Point, Jackson Heights, Jamaica, Jamaica Estates, Jamaica Hills, Kew Gardens, Laurelton, Lefrak City, Linden Hill, Lindenwood, Little Neck, Long Island City, Malba, Maspeth, Middle Village, Murray Hill, Neponsit, Oakland Gardens, Ozone Park, Pomonok, Queens Village, Queensboro Hill, Rego Park, Richmond Hill, Ridgewood, Rockaway Park, Rockaway Point, Rosedale, Saint Albans, Seaside, South Jamaica, South Ozone Park, Springfield Gardens, Steinway, Sunnyside, Utopia, Wave Crest, Whitestone, Woodhaven and Woodside.
