Delta Enterprises Announces Recall of about 2 Million Cribs
On October 21, 2008, Delta Enterprise Corporation of New York announced to recall approximately 2 million drop side cribs. This recall was announced after the reports that two infants suffocated and died when the crib’s drop side disconnected.
If the safety pegs in the base of the crib’s leg goes missing from the lower track, there id high possibility that for the crib’s lock to disengage and then detach if reduced below the peg hole, making a dangerous gap. This gap causes suffocation and entrapment of a toddler or an infant.
Infant Injuries and Deaths Reported
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) stated the death of a five-month-old infant who entrapped and then suffocated after the detachment of the drop side of the crib in the reassembled crib where there was no installation of the safety pegs. Other then this there were reports of nine disengagement and two entrapments incidents linked with crib where the safety cribs went missing.
The Delta crib voluntarily withdrawal includes 986,000 cribs related with Delta’s” Crib Trigger Lock with Safety Peg” drop side hardware and approximately 599,000 cribs with Delta’s “Crib Trigger Lock with Spring Peg” drop side hardware. The withdrawn have date codes varying from the year 1995 to December 2005 and one model (4624) produced in 2007. The model code numbers are written on the top side of the mattress support board.
Target.com, Kmart and Walmart, some of the major retailers in the United States sold these defective cribs from January 1995 to September 2007. In fact, in some places these cribs were even sold second hand. Recently sold cribs are not involved. Indonesia and Taiwan manufactured these cribs.
This recall affects the following model numbers found on the support board label of mattresses including:
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, 4980.
Continual Rise in Crib Recall Numbers
This voluntarily withdrawal further adds to the ever rising number of bassinets and cribs recall announced recently. In the year 2007, Simplicity Inc, withdrew more than 1 million faulty cribs following the reports of the crib’s drop side detaching and then causing entrapment and suffocation hazards.
The company requested the caregivers and parents to stop using cribs that misses safety peg on any leg of the crib. In addition, caregivers and parents are encouraged to identify a safe sleeping environment for their infant if their voluntarily withdrawal crib misses safety pegs.
Legal Advice
Although, these cribs are recently not available for purchase but many of these dangerous cribs are available at clearance outlets, second hand stores and hand me own childcare items.
If in any case your child has been injured due to incorrect installation instructions or due to defect in craftsmanship, contact an experienced recall lawyer who will help you in filing a lawsuit against the company so that you may receive some monetary compensation for the damages to you.