Baby cribs are being recalled today due to strangulation hazard. Three children died due to strangulation. In all three deaths, the consumer had installed the drop-rail side of the crib upside down, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said. This creates a gap in the crib that children can slide into and suffocate.
Seven other infants have been entrapped in the cribs, according to the CPSC. There have been 55 reports of the cribs' drop sides detaching or the hardware failing to hold the side to the crib.
Simplicity Inc., of Reading, Pa., is listed as manufacturer of all the cribs, which were made in China. The recalled cribs were sold nationwide, under the Simplicity or Graco brands, from January 1998 through May 2007. The recall involves multiple models and models numbers. Please go to the Consumer Product Safety Commission website for the model details.
None of the cribs that Simplicity currently supplies to stores is included in the recall, the company said in a statement.
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