Phoebeoh
08-30-2008, 03:02 PM
Just thought everybody should know about the safety alert from the government's Consumer Product Safety Commission regarding convertible bassinetts involved in two babies' deaths, especially since the company's new owners won't issue a recall.
The following snippet of the CPSC's news release is from its web site at
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml08/08378.html (where there is a disturbing photo illustrating the danger), and there have been a few news stories too. I think the Wall Street Journal story mentioned several retailers that were taking the bassinetts back.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is urging parents and caregivers to stop using convertible “close-sleeper/bedside sleeper” bassinets manufactured by Simplicity Inc., of Reading, Pa. CPSC has learned that on August 21, 2008, a 5-month-old girl from Shawnee, Kan. was strangled to death when she became entrapped between the bassinet’s metal bars. This is the second strangulation death CPSC has learned of in the close-sleeper bassinets. On September 29, 2007, a 4-month-old girl from Noel, Mo. became entrapped in the metal bars of the bassinet and died.
CPSC is issuing this safety alert because SFCA Inc., the company which purchased all of Simplicity Inc.’s assets at public auction in April 2008, has refused to cooperate with the government and recall the products.
The following snippet of the CPSC's news release is from its web site at
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml08/08378.html (where there is a disturbing photo illustrating the danger), and there have been a few news stories too. I think the Wall Street Journal story mentioned several retailers that were taking the bassinetts back.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is urging parents and caregivers to stop using convertible “close-sleeper/bedside sleeper” bassinets manufactured by Simplicity Inc., of Reading, Pa. CPSC has learned that on August 21, 2008, a 5-month-old girl from Shawnee, Kan. was strangled to death when she became entrapped between the bassinet’s metal bars. This is the second strangulation death CPSC has learned of in the close-sleeper bassinets. On September 29, 2007, a 4-month-old girl from Noel, Mo. became entrapped in the metal bars of the bassinet and died.
CPSC is issuing this safety alert because SFCA Inc., the company which purchased all of Simplicity Inc.’s assets at public auction in April 2008, has refused to cooperate with the government and recall the products.