Product Recall Number: 11-222
Why was Maclaren strollers (sold prior to November 2009) recalled?
The stroller's hinge mechanism poses a fingertip amputation and laceration hazard to the child when the consumer is unfolding/opening the stroller.
Product Recall Number: 11-222
Product Safety Warning Number:
Date: 2011-05-11
Product Safety Warning Date:
Name Of Product: Maclaren strollers (sold prior to November 2009)
Description: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today reannounced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers who have not yet obtained the repair should do so immediately. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.
Hazard Description: The stroller's hinge mechanism poses a fingertip amputation and laceration hazard to the child when the consumer is unfolding/opening the stroller.
Consumer Action: None Listed
Original Product Safety Warning Announcement: None Listed
Remedy Type: No Remedy Available
Units: About one million (this product was first announced in November 2009)
Incidents: Maclaren has received a total of 149 reported incidents with the strollers, including 37 reported injuries that occurred after the stroller was recalled in November 2009. These reported injuries include five additional fingertip amputations, 16 additional lacerations and 16 additional fingertip entrapments/bruising. At the time of the original recall, there were 15 incidents, including 12 reports of fingertip amputations in the United States.
Remedy: The recall remedy is no longer available. Destroy and discard the recalled strollers.
Sold At: Juvenile product and mass merchandise retailers nationwide from 1999 through November 2009 for between $100 and $360.
Importers: None Listed
Manufacturers: None Listed
Distributors: Maclaren USA, Inc., of South Norwalk, Conn.
Manufactured In: China
Custom Label: None Listed
Custom Field: None Listed