More than 2 million Stork Craft drop-side cribs recalled
Filed under: Recalls
More than 2.1 million drop-side cribs are being voluntarily recalled by their manufacturer, Stork Craft Manufacturing, Inc., after four incidents in which infants were trapped and suffocated, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The recall includes about 147,000 cribs with the popular Fisher-Price logo.The recall is the largest involving cribs by the CPSC.
Although Stork Craft is based in British Columbia, the cribs were manufactured in China and Indonesia, as well as in Canada. They have been sold since 1993 under a variety of brand names, including Fisher-Price, at outlets including Wal-Mart Stores, Kmart and Sears, inc.
Drop-side cribs are popular with parents because the mechanism makes it easier to lift baby out of the crib without having to hunch over the sides.
According to its press release, CPSC urges parents and caregivers to immediately stop using the recalled cribs, wait for the free repair kit, and do not attempt to fix the cribs without the kit. They should find an alternative, safe sleeping environment for their baby. Consumers should contact Stork Craft to receive a free repair kit that converts the drop-side on these cribs to a fixed side.
The recall does not include cribs that are not drop-sided, according to the CPSC.
For additional information, contact Stork Craft toll-free at (877) 274-0277 at any time to order the free repair kit, or log on to www.storkcraft.com.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
11-23-2009 @ 9:50PM
Mary said...
The website must be overloaded. Ugh. StorkCraftRecall.com ?
Very informative article. Thanks!
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11-24-2009 @ 7:07AM
Duane said...
More Chinese junk killing our people and now our infants. When will America wake up and stop buying ANYTHING made in China?
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11-24-2009 @ 11:32AM
aavolan said...
First we lose our jobs!! Now we are losing our lives!!!
11-24-2009 @ 2:21PM
Kagan said...
Duane, I don't see where the cribs being built in China has anything to do with it. Many of the cribs were also manufactured in Canada.
The method of manufacture is not in any way relevant to the problem here. It is a design flaw. If they were built in your backyard, they would STILL have the same design flaw.
As many on these boards seem to love doing, you are twisting the story to support some political position you wish to promote. Go to a politics board and do that.
BTW, I assume you are typing on a keyboard, turn it over and see where it was built. If everything we purchased and owned were built in the USA, our incomes would not support our current standard of living. Our businesses would not be able to compete on an international scale due to the cost of our goods, and our economy would collapse within a year. It would not simply be a depression, we would become a third world nation overnight.
I think maybe we should focus all the energy we spend on political bickering to improve our education system. If matters like macro economics, psychology, and sociology were taught at the grade school level instead of being reserved for grad schoolers, our political system wouldn't have to cow tow to the ignorant majority.
Getting back to the specific story; the real question here is how and why an engineering flaw made it's way to mass production and distribution without being caught by QA testing. Where the production took place is irrelevant.
11-24-2009 @ 8:59AM
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11-24-2009 @ 10:11AM
Maggie said...
Welcome to the United States of America.... owned and operated by China
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11-24-2009 @ 11:35AM
marcia said...
First we lose our jobs!! Now we are losing our lives!!!
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11-24-2009 @ 12:12PM
Chuck said...
Didn't America get rid of the dangerous baby crib problems back in the 1950's? Also the lead in the toys problems? Why has it returned? Oh, yeah China. Who is profiting off of the cheap labor and inferior products at the expense of the American worker and consumer?
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11-24-2009 @ 5:17PM
Angie Puthoff said...
Storkcraft is no longer just in the crib business – it is in the child safety business. The company is taking the right steps by issuing the recall, but there are steps both Storkcraft and its customers can take to ensure that this is an effective recall. IMike Rozemgajgier talks about this in more detail here: http://bit.ly/5CuGSi.
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11-25-2009 @ 12:02PM
Jerry said...
Kagen, I believe you might be making the mistake of believing everything you read. If the product is assembled in Canada they can call it made and manufactured in Canada. Would you bet against the odds that most if not all the parts came from China?
Look at the recall info and look at the parts that are broken and faulty. Does that sound like Canada to you? Not to me it doesn't. They assembled it, sold as there's and it broke.
Just my 2 cents.
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