Infant playpens recalled in US after baby's strangling death

0 Comments | AFP, September, 2007

WASHINGTON (AFP) — A US manufacturer of furniture for infants and small children, Kolcraft Enterprises, on Thursday recalled 425,000 playpens following the strangulation death of a 10-month old boy.

In addition to the Sesame Beginnings Play Yard, in which the infant boy died after strangling on a restraint strap, 12 other models are included in the recall, the company said in a statement issued jointly with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission.

Among them, the Contours 3-in-1 Play Yard poses a suffocation risk, the statement said.

Kolcraft has received 45 reports of children rolling to the side of a rocking cradle on the Contours 3-in-1 play yard and becoming trapped against the side of the cradle, where they could suffocate.

The statement made...