Product Recall Number: 10-029
Why was recalled?
"The plastic coated lumber on the horizontal ladder (monkey bar/swing beam) can weaken over time due to rotting of the whitewood (spruce, pine and fir species), resulting in a fall hazard."
Product Recall Number: 10-029
Product Safety Warning Number:
Date: 2009-11-04
Product Safety Warning Date:
Name Of Product: None Listed
Description: "The plastic coated lumber on the horizontal ladder (monkey bar/swing beam) can weaken over time due to rotting of the whitewood (spruce, pine and fir species)"
Hazard Description: "The plastic coated lumber on the horizontal ladder (monkey bar/swing beam) can weaken over time due to rotting of the whitewood (spruce, pine and fir species), resulting in a fall hazard."
Consumer Action: None Listed
Original Product Safety Warning Announcement: None Listed
Remedy Type: Replace
Units: "About 275,000 in the United States and 6,800 in Canada"
Incidents: "Adventure Playsets has received more than 1,400 reports of rotting ladders involving 16 injuries that resulted in nine emergency room visits. The injuries include two arm fractures, lacerations, scrapes, and bruises to children younger than 8 years old. Most of the reported injuries occurred when the swing came out of the monkey bar/ swing beam that had rotted."
Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the swing sets and contact Adventure Playsets to receive a replacement kit.
Sold At: "Walmart, Toys R Us, Academy Sports, Menards, and Mill stores nationwide, and online at Walmart.com, ToyRUs.com, Willygoat.com and through the DMSI catalog from January 2004 through December 2007 for between $300 and $600."
Importers: None Listed
Manufacturers: None Listed
Distributors: "Adventure Playsets, of Amarillo, Texas"
Manufactured In: United States
Custom Label: None Listed
Custom Field: None Listed