Recall of the Week: Burlington Basket Company bassinets due to fall hazard
February 21, 2011
About 500,000 Burlington Basket Company bassinets are being recalled.
If the cross-bracing rails aren’t fully locked into position, the bassinets can collapse causing the infant to fall to the floor or fall within the bassinet and suffer injuries.
The company and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission have received 10 reports of the bassinets collapsing when the folding legs weren’t locked into place. Two infants received minor injuries as a result of the collapses, including a bruise to the head and a bruised shoulder.
The recall includes all Burlington Basket bassinets manufactured before June 2010. Affected models have folding legs attached to the basket with white plastic pins.
Units with non-folding legs attached with metal pins aren’t included in the recall.
Manufactured in the United States, the bassinets were sold at Wal-Mart and other mass merchandisers, department stores, and juvenile product stores nationwide and online by various Web retailers, including Amazon.com, from January 2003 through August 2010 for about $50.
Consumers should immediately stop using the bassinets and check the cross-bracing support rails to make sure they are in the locked position, the commission advises. To properly lock the support rails into place, the end tabs must be fully inserted into the holes on the leg assembly and twisted one quarter turn into the locked position, as shown in the photos above and below.
Consumers should contact Burlington Basket Company for a free kit with detailed instructions on proper assembly of the cross-bracing support rails and decals with assembly instructions to place on the bassinet. A video showing proper assembly of the bassinets is available is available at burlingtonbasket.org/BASSINETRECALL.aspx.
Under the recall, bassinettes are to be repaired, not returned.
For additional information, contact Burlington Basket Company at 800-553-2300 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. CT Monday through Friday, or visit the firm’s website at www.burlingtonbasket.com.
For details on other recalls, see www.recalls.gov.
This is a good action what they did here for the recall. We don't want to risk the safety of the babies with these.
Posted by: baby furniture | August 23, 2011 at 01:19 AM
Yes. And the new crib rules in the U.S. are important, too.
Rita
Posted by: Rita | August 23, 2011 at 08:51 AM