Stork Craft Cribs with Drop Side Rail Being Recalled

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced the voluntary recall of over 2 million drop-side cribs manufactured by Stork Craft Cribs. The hardware holding the drop side has been known to fail, causing entrapment, falling, or even death to a child. There have been 110 cases that the CPSC has been made aware of. 67 of these cases have been in the United States where approximately 1.2 million of these cribs have been sold. The other 43 cases occurred in Canada, with about 968,000 cribs sold there. Four of the 15 entrapment incidents resulted in suffocation. If you are one of the millions who have purchased one of these cribs, please stop using immediately. The Stork Craft Crib Company has issued a free hardware replacement kit to fix the problem. The kit converts the drop side to a fixed side. Do not try to repair the crib without the kit.

These cribs are for Stork Craft cribs with drop sides only. Some of these cribs may have a Fisher Price logo on them. Stork Craft cribs that do not have a drop side are not affected. Also, Stork Craft cribs with metal rod drop-side hardware are not affected. It is only for Stork Craft cribs with plastic trigger and one hand system drop-side hardware.

If you have one of the Stork Craft drop-side cribs, or if you are not sure, please call Stork Craft toll free at (877) 274-0277. Or you can visit their website at www.storkcraft.com. If you have one the affected cribs, they will send you a free repair kit.

The recalled Stork Craft drop-side cribs have manufacturing and distributions dates between January 1993 and October 2009. The Stork Craft cribs with the Fisher Price logo have manufacture dates between October 1997 and December 2004. Identifying information, including manufacture date, model number and crib name are on the assembly instruction sheet attached to the mattress support board, and on the end panels of the Twinkle Twinkle and Crystal crib models. The Stork Craft cribs were sold at big retailers like BJ's Wholesale, J C Penney's, Kmart, Sears, USA Baby, Meijer and Wal Mart. On line sites that carried them were Amazon.com, Target.com, WalMart.com, Costco.com and BabiesRUs.com. They sold between January 1993 and October 2009 for $100 to $400.

This has been the second recall for Stork Craft this year. The CPSC issued a press release of a voluntary recall of about 535,000 cribs with metal support brackets used to support the mattress that could crack and break. Stork Craft issued a free repair kit for this incident also. For more information, please call their toll free number (877) 274-0277 or logon to their website at www.storkcraft.com.

Sources:

November 2009 recall of drop-side cribs http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/112309_cribs.pdf?tag=contentMain;contentBody

January 2009 recall of mattress support brackets http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09093.html