Product Recall Number: 05-112
Why was Dive Sticks recalled?
Children can fall or land on these upright dive sticks in shallow water and suffer impalement injuries. CPSC banned pre-weighted dive sticks in 2001.
Product Recall Number: 05-112
Product Safety Warning Number:
Date: 2005-02-15
Product Safety Warning Date:
Name Of Product: Dive Sticks
Description: The dive sticks are hard plastic in the shape of worms, fish, and seahorses. The worm dive sticks are sticks with ridges that are green with an orange weighted ball or pink with a yellow weighted ball on the bottom. The fish dive sticks are pink and yellow or green and orange. The seahorse dive sticks are yellow with a blue tail or pink with a yellow tail. All of the dive sticks are about 7 inches long. "Made in China" is written on the fish and seahorses. "Sun and Shade" is written on each package. There are two worms per package and three fish or seahorses per package.
Hazard Description: Children can fall or land on these upright dive sticks in shallow water and suffer impalement injuries. CPSC banned pre-weighted dive sticks in 2001.
Consumer Action: None Listed
Original Product Safety Warning Announcement: None Listed
Remedy Type: Dispose, Refund
Units: About 180,000 dive stick packages
Incidents: None reported
Remedy: Consumers should take these dive sticks away from children immediately and return them to Dollar General stores for a refund, or discard them.
Sold At: Dollar General stores nationwide from April 2004 through September 2004 for about $1.
Importers: None Listed
Manufacturers: None Listed
Distributors: The Dollar General Corp., of Goodlettsville, Tenn.
Manufactured In: China
Custom Label: None Listed
Custom Field: None Listed