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Cribs-Recall
July 8, 2010 Updated Jul 8, 2010 at 3:25 PM EDT

About one (m) million Simplicity and Graco cribs are being
recalled after three children became entrapped in their cribs and
died of suffocation.
Two infants -- a six-month-old and a nine-month-old -- died in
the recalled cribs, which were sold through May of this year.
A one-year-old child died in a newer model of the cribs, which
has not been recalled but is being investigated by the safety
agency.
The commission says in all three deaths, the consumer had
installed the drop-rail side of the crib upside down.
This creates a gap in the crib that children can slide into and
suffocate.
The commission says seven other infants have been entrapped in
the cribs.
There have been 55 reports of the cribs' drop sides detaching or
the hardware failing to hold the side to the crib.
Simplicity Incorporated, of Reading, Pennsylvania, is listed as
manufacturer of all the cribs, which were made in China.
The recalled cribs were sold across the U-S, under the
Simplicity or Graco brands, from January 1998 through May 2007.
The recall involves multiple models and model numbers.
The company is offering free repairs for cribs with older
hardware.
(The Associated Press) (from Broadcast News Ltd.)

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