Stork Craft Crib Recalled
Stork Craft Manufacturing has issued the largest crib recall in American history after reports of four infants suffocating due to hardware problems. It is estimated that 1.2 million of the cribs have been sold in the U.S. and almost 1 million in Canada since 1993. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced the recall Monday. This is Stork Craft’s second major recall this year after having recalled 500,000 cribs in January 2009 for metal bracket problems.
The CPSC announced that there have been four reports of infants being caught in the drop side detachment and suffocating to death. There have also been 110 reports of infants being injured from the crib. The problem lies with both the hardware, which can break or deform, and assembly problems.
The cribs were sold between January 1993 and October 2009 at such retail outlets as BJ’s Wholesale Club, Sears, Wal-Mart, and Target and Costco online for between $100 and $400. You can locate the manufacture date, model number, crib name, country of origin (Canada, China, or Indonesia), and firm’s name (Stork Craft Baby or Storkling) by looking on the assembly instruction sheet attached to the mattress support board. Some of the cribs have the Fisher-Price logo on the crib’s teething rail. Cribs without drop sides or those with metal rod drop-side hardware are not involved in the recall.
If you have a Stork Craft crib that has been purchased since 1993, you can contact Stork Craft at (877) 274-0277 or visit their web page (http://www.storkcraft.com) to receive a free repair kit.