Product: Stork Craft Drop-Side Cribs
Manufacturer: Stork Craft Manufacturing Inc., of British Columbia, Canada
Recall: November 23, 2009. Stork Craft has recalled approximately 2.1 million drop-side cribs, including cribs with the Fisher-Price logo, because the drop-side plastic hardware can break, deform or become missing, and the drop-side can be installed upside down, which can result in broken or disengaged parts. All of these problems can cause the drop side to detach in one or more corners and create a space between the drop-side and crib mattress, which poses an entrapment or suffocation hazard. Complete drop-side detachment can pose a fall hazard.
There have been at least 110 reports of drop-side detachments (67 in the U.S. and 43 in Canada), which include 15 entrapments (12 in the U.S. and three in Canada). Of the U.S. entrapments, four resulted in suffocation. Included in the reports were 20 falls from cribs (12 in the U.S. and eight in Canada). All of the incidents involved drop-side cribs with plastic 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 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.
The recall includes 1.2 million cribs sold in the U.S. and .9 million cribs sold in Canada. 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.
What to do: Stop using the recalled crib and contact Stork Craft for a free conversion kit that converts the drop-side crib to a fixed-side crib.
Contact: Stork Craft toll-free at (877) 274-0277 anytime, or online www.storkcraft.com
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