Tots in Mind Portable Playard Tent Strangulation Death: Attorney for Investigation and Lawsuit

Attorney Fred Pritzker is representing a family whose baby's death is associated with an unsafe children's product. For a free consultation with an attorney at Pritzker Olsen law firm about a a Tots in Mind Portable Playard Tent strangulation death, please call 1-888-377-8900 (toll free) or submit our online consultation form. We have won millions for families who lost babies, including $3.5 million for a family when an unsafe product caused the death of their unborn twins.

Baby Death Prompts Recall of Tots in Mind Portable Playard

On July 15, 2010, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Health Canada (HC), in cooperation with Tots in Mind Inc., of Salem, N.H., announced the voluntary recall of about 20,000 (and 85 in Canada) Cozy Indoor Outdoor Portable Playard Tents Plus Cabana Kits.

Clips that attach the tent to the top of the playard can break or be removed by a child. A child can lift the tent and become entrapped at the neck between the rigid playard frame and the metal base rod of the tent, posing a child strangulation hazard.

CPSC is aware of a death of a 2-year-old boy in December 2008 in Vinalhaven, Maine. The boy was found hanging with his neck entrapped between the playard frame and the metal base rod of the tent that had been partially tied by pieces of nylon rope and partially attached by clips. The tent was tied to the playard because the child was able to pop off the clips. Apparently, the child became entrapped while attempting to climb out of the playard. In three other incidents, children were able to remove one or more clips and place their necks between the tent and the playard. The children were not injured.

The dome-shaped white-colored mesh tent is designed to fit over playards as small as 28 inches by 40 inches or as large as 31 inches by 44 inches to contain a child. There are 12 plastic clips to secure the base of the tent to the top rail of the playard through button holes along the bottom of the tent. The tent has a zippered side for putting in and taking out the child.

The cribs were made in China and sold at Walmart, Amazon.com and various baby and children’s stores nationwide from January 2005 through February 2010 for about $60.

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