The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced the largest crib recall in United States history, involving cribs with dropdown sides, fearing they may be unsafe, even deadly.
The CPSC, in cooperation with Stork Craft Manufacturing Inc., of British Columbia, Canada, announced the voluntary recall of more than 2.1 million Stork Craft drop-side cribs, including about 147,000 Stork Craft drop-side cribs with the Fisher-Price logo.
The recall involves approximately 1,213,000 units distributed in the United States and 968,000 units distributed in Canada.
In a press statement, the CPSC urged 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.
According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission there have been dozens of deaths over the past decade involving drop-side cribs made by different manufacturers. The federal government has recalled nearly 5 million cribs in the past two years — the vast majority of them cribs with drop sides.
The recall involves multiple models of drop-side cribs made by Stork Craft – from January 1993 to October 2009 – 147,000 of them with the Fisher Price logo. Malfunctioning plastic hardware is to blame. Parents are being told to stop using the cribs immediately and go to the company’s website, www.storkcraft.com, to receive a repair kit.
Of the 500,000 full size cribs sold in the U.S. last year, 100,000 of them had drop sides. Parents like the convenience of being able to put the baby in the crib with the side down.
Just to reassure anyone who received a crib from THE NON STOP chesed of crown heights. Non of the cribs that you’ve received are part of the recall bh so enjoy your babies and cribs in good health! Ab and csb