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Stork Craft and Fisher- Price Crib Recall

OUR LAW FIRM IS NOT ACCEPTING CASES WHERE THERE WERE NO INJURIES. PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT US UNLESS YOUR CHILD WAS INJURED.

Four children have suffocated while in cribs manufactured by Stork Craft Manufacturing Inc., of British Columbia, Canada, and sold under the Stork Craft or Fisher-Price label.  The children were entrapped in the space between the drop-down and the crib mattress.  In addition to these four deaths, 11 additional entrapments and 20 falls have been reported.  Our law firm is investigating these cases.  Contact us if you would like a free consultation regarding a Fisher-Price lawsuit and a Stork Craft lawsuit.

Prompted by the four deaths and numerous injuries, Stork Craft has announced a Stork Craft and Fisher-Price crib recall that involves about 147,000 Stork Craft drop-side cribs with the Fisher-Price logo and almost 2 million Stork Craft drop-side cribs that do not have the Fisher-Price logo on them. These cribs were sold in the United States and Canada.

What to Do if You Have a
Recalled Stork Craft or Fisher-Price Crib

DO NOT USE A RECALLED CRIB.  We also urge all readers to tell friends and relatives about this Stork Craft and Fisher-Price crib recall.

Fisher-Price Crib RecallAccording to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Stork Craft is offering a free repair kit that converts the drop-side on these cribs to a fixed side.

If your child has been injured or killed while in a recalled crib, DO NOT ALTER THE CRIB IN ANY WAY.  You will be destroying evidence that can be used to prove that Stork Craft and Fisher-Price sold dangerous and defective cribs.

As product safety lawyers, we advocate for stricter regulations on manufacturers to ensure that products are adequately tested for safety prior to going to market, that all products meant for children are checked by the manufacturer for defective or missing parts, that all instructions are written clearly and in a way that would prevent consumers assembling the product from making a mistake.

Again, the reported injuries and deaths associated with the recalled Stork Craft and Fisher-Price cribs is as follows:

  • Four entrapments resulting in suffocation: a 7-month-old in Gouverneur, New York; a 7-month-old in New Iberia, Louisiana; a 6-month-old in Summersville, West Virginia.; and a 9-month-old in Bronx, New York.
  • 20 falls from cribs: 12 in the U.S. and eight in Canada, with fall injuries ranging from head injury (concussion) to bumps and bruises.

The cribs involved in these incidents had plastic drop-side hardware that had broken, missing, or deformed claws, connectors, tracks, or flexible tab stops; loose or missing metal spring clips; stripped screws; and/or drop-sides installed upside-down.

This recall involves Stork Craft drop-side cribs and Stork Craft drop-side cribs with the Fisher-Price logo. This recall does not involve any cribs that do not have a drop-side. This Stork Craft crib recall does not involve any cribs with metal rod drop-side hardware. It involves only those cribs with plastic trigger and one-hand-system drop-side hardware.

This recall includes Stork Craft cribs with manufacturing and distribution dates between January 1993 and October 2009. This recall also includes Stork Craft cribs with the Fisher-Price logo that have manufacturing dates between October 1997 and December 2004. The Stork Craft cribs with the Fisher-Price logo were first sold in the U.S. in July 1998 and in Canada in September 1998. The cribs were sold in various styles and finishes. The manufacture date, model number, crib name, country of origin, and the firm’s name, address, and contact information are located on the assembly instruction sheet attached to the mattress support board. The firm’s insignia “storkcraft baby” or “storkling” is inscribed on the drop-side teething rail of some cribs. In Stork Craft cribs that contain the “Fisher-Price” logo, this logo can be found on the crib’s teething rail, in the manufacturer’s instructions, on the assembly instruction sheet attached to the mattress support board, and on the end panels of the Twinkle-Twinkle and Crystal crib models.

Major retailers in the United States and Canada sold the recalled cribs including BJ’s Wholesale Club, J.C. Penney, Kmart, Meijer, Sears, USA Baby, and Wal-Mart stores and online at Amazon.com, Babiesrus.com, Costco.com, Target.com, and Walmart.com from January 1993 through October 2009 for between $100 and $400.
The cribs were manufactured in Canada, China and Indonesia.

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