Four Deaths Lead to Largest Crib Recall in U.S. History
Faulty hardware on recalled Stork Craft drop-side cribs may allow the drop-side to detach, potentially trapping children and causing serious or fatal injury.


January 10, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Four Deaths Lead to Largest Crib Recall in U.S. History

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Stork Craft Manufacturing recently recalled 2.1 million Stork Craft cribs due to entrapment, suffocation and fall hazards. Faulty hardware on the recalled drop-side cribs may allow the drop-side to detach, potentially trapping children and causing serious or fatal injury.

Stork Craft is providing repair kits to convert the drop sides on the recalled cribs to fixed sides. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has warned parents not to use these cribs until installation of the repair is complete or to instead find alternative safe sleeping arrangements for their babies. The CPSC, Health Canada and Stork Craft have identified 110 drop-side detachments (I don't understand what this means...are we saying 110 incidents, or parts of the crib?), including 15 entrapment incidents, four of which resulted in suffocation deaths. In addition, authorities have attributed 20 falls to the defective Stork Craft cribs, some of which resulted in injuries.

The recalled Stork Craft cribs contain plastic trigger and one-hand drop-side hardware. Drop-side cribs with metal rods are not subject to the recall. Stork Craft manufactured the defective cribs between October 1997 and December 2004 and sold them under both Stork Craft and Fisher Price labels. Many retailers sold these cribs, including:
-BJ's Wholesale Club
-J.C. Penney
-Kmart
-Meijer
-Sears
-USA Baby
-Wal-Mart and Walmart.com
-Amazon.com
-Babiesrus.com
-Costco.com
-Target.com

The Stork Craft recall, said to be the largest crib recall in history, is eerily reminiscent of another crib recall involving over one million Simplicity cribs in 2007. The Simplicity cribs, like the Stork Craft cribs, had plastic hardware and were prone to upside-down drop-side installation. The Simplicity crib defects resulted in three known deaths and multiple lawsuits.

If you believe that you have a crib subject to one of the above-referenced recalls, please contact the manufacturer, retailer, distributor or CPSC immediately to receive the proper information regarding repairing the defect. If you or your child has been injured by a faulty or defective crib, you should contact an experienced personal injury and product liability attorney to determine if you have a case.

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