Safety fears lead to recalls of baby highchairs, cribs
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Warning of potential injury and death, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has released a flurry of baby-merchandise recalls, including highchairs with falling seats and portable cribs that can cause suffocation.
About 643,000 Evenflo Envision highchairs and 90,000 Evenflo Majestic highchairs have been recalled because fasteners and screws can fall out and allow the back of the seat in both chairs to fall backward or detach, the Commission said in a statement.
The recall of the Majestic chair is an expansion of a December recall of 95,000 other Evenflo chairs, the statement said. Altogether more than 185,000 Majestic chairs have been recalled. The Envision and Majestic chairs were manufactured in China, the Commission said.
Evenflo has received 320 complaints of seatbacks detaching or suddenly reclining and 13 reports of screws or fasteners falling out of the Envision chair. The company received 16 reports of seatbacks reclining, falling back or detaching in the Majestic chair.
The highchairs were sold at Toys R Us, Babies R Us, Wal-mart, Kmart, Burlington Coat Factory and other stores across the country. The Envision was sold between Dec. 2002 and April 2006, and the Majestic was sold between Jan. 2007 and March 2009.
About 1,900 SunKids convertible cribs, built in China and imported by Suntech Enterprises Inc. of City of Commerce, were recalled because children could suffocate in the crib, a commission statement said.
A gap in the crib can open between the side of the crib and its mattress if the bed’s mesh isn’t zipped into place. A child could suffocate if they fell into this gap, the statement said. The drop side of the crib can also fail to fully latch, which could result in children falling out of the crib, the statement said.
No incidents have been reported with this crib, the commission said, but a 5-month-old child died in August after the baby was trapped in a similar crib.
The SunKids convertible cribs were sold by stores in California, New York and New Jersey between January 2007 and October 2008.
-- Nathan Olivarez-Giles