CPSC Likely to Ban Drop Side Cribs – Texas Child Injury Lawyers
With the total death toll from suffocation/ entrapment accidents involving dropside cribs crossing 46 , there was really no other choice. Last week, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that it would soon move towards a ban on the manufacture and sales of cribs with dropsides.
That announcement came after a series of multiple recalls, many of them massive ones involving millions of cribs. All of the recalls involved dropside cribs, and came after several infants were trapped, and some killed, in these cribs.
Houston Personal Injury Lawyers Have Been Concerned About Crib Safety
As parents ourselves of small children, crib safety is a huge issue with us. This is where our baby sleeps, and it needs to be the safest place in the world. Unfortunately, in the case of too many dropside cribs, it has been a place of death and destruction. Dropside cribs allow the creation of a gap between the mattress and the dropside. This gap is created when the dropside becomes detached from the crib. Because of wear and tear, the dropside may become loose and detached, and the gap can be big enough to trap an infant, leading to a suffocation death.
According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, over the past decade, there have been 46 infant deaths related to suffocation and entrapment in dropside cribs. Suffocation and strangulation hazards have been blamed for 32 of these deaths, while the remaining 14 were linked to babies becoming entrapped in their cribs with fatal consequences. Just last week, the CPSC announced a recall of 170,000 cribs distributed by C & T International and Sorelle for entrapment hazards.
The drill has become all too painful and familiar to Houston personal injury lawyers. It’s astounding that these cribs are still being manufactured and sold, considering that approximately 7,000,000 cribs have been recalled by the CPSC.
The decision by the CPSC is not exactly unexpected. Earlier this year, Chairperson Inez Tenenbaum had promised that her agency would look into the problems with these cribs, and would set higher standards for these. It seems like banning them until safer designs can be developed, is the only solution.
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