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Latest Personal Injury News Infant Deaths Result in 1.5 Million Drop Side Cribs Recalled
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October 22, 2008
On October 21, Delta Enterprise Corp. and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued a voluntary recall of approximately 1.5 million drop side cribs packaged with missing or defective parts. It was discovered that 985,000 cribs were packaged and sent to retailers missing safety pegs while an additional 600,000 cribs included defective versions of the same pegs. Without working pegs in place, the crib locks can easily become detached creating a gap large enough for an infant to fit into. Up until the time of the recall there were two reports of infant deaths, two entrapments and nine disengagement incidents in drop side cribs missing the safety pegs. The cribs missing safety pegs were sold at large retailers including Walmart, K-Mart and Target.com between January 1995 and September 2007 and can also be found at secondhand stores. If you purchased a crib during this time period, you can verify the model number and country of origin, found on the mattress support label, with the following list subject to the recall: 4320, 4340, 4500, 4520, 4530, 4532, 4540, 4542, 4550, 4551, 4580, 4600, 4620, 4624 (production dates 01/06 thru 11/07), 4640, 4660, 4720, 4735, 4742, 4750 (production dates 01/95 thru 12/00), 4760, 4770, 4780, 4790, 4820, 4840, 4850, 4860, 4880, 4890, 4892, 4900, 4910, 4920, 4925-2, 4925-6, 4930, 4940, 4943, 4944, 4947, 4948, 4949, 4950, 4958, 4963, 4968, 4969 and 4980. The drop side cribs with defective safety pegs, otherwise known as the "crib trigger lock with spring peg" drop side design, were sold nationwide between January 2000 and January 2007. Model numbers for these cribs, also found on the mattress support label, are as follows: 4340, 4343, 4520, 4600, 4620, 4624, 4625, 4629, 4660, 4665, 4720, 4750, 4751, 4850, 4855, 4857, 4880, 4920, 4925 -2, 4925-2B, 4925-6, 4980 and 8605. Please contact Goldberg & Osborne at 1-800-843-3245 if your child or a loved one was injured as a result of a Delta Enterprise Corp. manufactured crib with missing or defective safety pegs. << Back to News |