425,000 Play Yards Recalled
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Baby supply company Kolcraft Enterprises Inc. is recalling more than 425,000 play yards after a 10-month old boy was strangled, a government safety agency announced Thursday.
The boy was inside the company's Sesame Beginnings Travel Play Yard and the restraint strap from the elevated changing table hung down into the main play area and strangled him, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The company is now recalling a dozen different types of play yards with changing table attachments that have that type of strap.
"These play areas have a serious design flaw that poses a strangulation hazard," said CPSC spokeswoman Patty Davis. "A 10-month-old boy died after strangling on one of the recalled Kolcraft play yards' restraint straps. We don't want that to happen to any other children."
Kolcraft spokeswoman Diane Steed noted that the changing tables did have warnings on them telling parents not to put a child in the play area when this attachment is on top.
"We would stress to parents again: `Do not put your child in the play yard when the changing table is on top,"' she said.
The play yards were manufactured in China.
One of the play yards, Contours 3-in-1, also features a rocking cradle attachment that sits on the top of the main play area. A child who rolls all the way to the side in the cradle could get stuck between the cradle and the mesh wall of the play yard.
If there is a blanket or another material thrown over this wall, it could block the child's mouth or nose and pose a suffocation hazard. The company has received 45 reports of children rolling to the side and getting stuck in this manner, but no reports of injuries.
The play yards were sold around the country between January 2001 and September 2007. To receive a free replacement strap for the changing tables and a free kit to secure the rocking cradle, call Kolcraft at 888-655-8484. In the meantime, consumers should cut the existing restraining straps from the changing tables.
The recall includes various models of the following play yards:
Kolcraft Travelin' Tot
Kolcraft Travelin' Tot LTD
Kolcraft Travelin' Tot 3-in-1
Kolcraft Travelin' Tot 4-in-1
Carter's Lennon Travelin' Tot
"Sesame Beginnings" by Kolcraft Travel Play Yard
Jeep Sahara SE Play Yard
Jeep Sahara Limited Play Yard
Jeep Sahara XT Play Yard
Jeep Sahara Limited SE Play Yard
Jeep Sahara Limited XT Play Yard
Contours 3-in-1 Play Yard
© 2009 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The boy was inside the company's Sesame Beginnings Travel Play Yard and the restraint strap from the elevated changing table hung down into the main play area and strangled him, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The company is now recalling a dozen different types of play yards with changing table attachments that have that type of strap.
"These play areas have a serious design flaw that poses a strangulation hazard," said CPSC spokeswoman Patty Davis. "A 10-month-old boy died after strangling on one of the recalled Kolcraft play yards' restraint straps. We don't want that to happen to any other children."
Kolcraft spokeswoman Diane Steed noted that the changing tables did have warnings on them telling parents not to put a child in the play area when this attachment is on top.
"We would stress to parents again: `Do not put your child in the play yard when the changing table is on top,"' she said.
The play yards were manufactured in China.
One of the play yards, Contours 3-in-1, also features a rocking cradle attachment that sits on the top of the main play area. A child who rolls all the way to the side in the cradle could get stuck between the cradle and the mesh wall of the play yard.
If there is a blanket or another material thrown over this wall, it could block the child's mouth or nose and pose a suffocation hazard. The company has received 45 reports of children rolling to the side and getting stuck in this manner, but no reports of injuries.
The play yards were sold around the country between January 2001 and September 2007. To receive a free replacement strap for the changing tables and a free kit to secure the rocking cradle, call Kolcraft at 888-655-8484. In the meantime, consumers should cut the existing restraining straps from the changing tables.
The recall includes various models of the following play yards:
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I do not have to personally design anything, and no I don''t work for "one of those" companies. I am a new parent who is smart enough not to put my daughter around ANYTHING that could be a potential danger to her. There is no manufacturering defect, it states not to put the baby in there with the changing table attached, where is the defect? There is no inferior design, it''s not like the play yard fell apart. IT ALL COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED BY REMOVING THE CHANGING TABLE. Does the company need to come and show you how to work the product before you use it? I think not. If you choose not to read the instructions (or read them and ignore them), it is no one''s fault but your own. Period.
Half the time people don''t even read the directions on things they buy. The result can be that something isn''t put together or used properly and the warnings are not heeded.I think that they think that companies spend extra time and money to write these direction just for the h-e-l-l of it.
It is the same with everything. People can''t even follow directions on their medications. I have known several parents that overdosed their kids on stuff like vitamins and cough medicines, for instance. They think that because the vitamins are chewable and fruity flavoured, that it is just like candy, and that it is okay to give their kids more than one. More than one is TOXIC. It is too much vitamin A and too much vitamin D.
I am thinking that unless people can pass a COMMON SENSE test, they shouldn''t be allowed to have kids!!
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Parents haven''t stopped THINKING, despite your sermonette about self-reliance. In fact, only thinking people understand the need for closer attention to safety issues. Even some GOP pols agree regulation is one of the principal functions of government, as when demanding more police on the streets, or enforcement of traffic regulations.
Every time you start your car, you benefit from standards and safety devices from years of battles between wealthy manufacturers (who did not want spend on safer designs for their customers) and regulators (your government-- the one you voted into office, and the one you are free to vote out, as well). From the issuance of child safety restraint laws to the concern about lead in child toys, the American public expects safety inspection and regulation.
The seamy underside to the child safety issue is the Bush administration is generally hostile to the very concept of child safety regulations. Bush reduced the Consumer Product Safety Commission to a shadow of its former self, on the pretext of CPSC''s being "politically incorrect". The GOP ideology was, we self-reliant Americans do not really need government (except when it comes to suspension of civil liberties, spying on Americans, secrecy and lying to the American public-- all in the name of "national security").