Product Recall Number: 12-109
Why was Slalom Glider recalled?
The Slalom Glider is a playground slide that lacks a transition platform on the top and sides on the chute. Children can fall when moving from the ladder to the slide and when descending the chute.
Product Recall Number: 12-109
Product Safety Warning Number:
Date: 2012-02-15
Product Safety Warning Date:
Name Of Product: Slalom Glider
Description: The Slalom Glider is a playground slide that lacks a transition platform on the top and sides on the chute. Children can fall when moving from the ladder to the slide and when descending the chute.
Hazard Description: The Slalom Glider is a playground slide that lacks a transition platform on the top and sides on the chute. Children can fall when moving from the ladder to the slide and when descending the chute.
Consumer Action: None Listed
Original Product Safety Warning Announcement: None Listed
Remedy Type: Refund, Replace
Units: About 900
Incidents: CPSC and the firm have received 16 reports of injuries to children under 8-years old, including one bruised arm, 14 fractures to arms and legs, one fractured collar bone and one bruised spleen.
Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop children from using the recalled gliders and owners will be contacted by Landscape Structures regarding removal instructions. Customers will be given the option of replacing the Slalom Glider with another piece of playground equipment, receiving a refund, or receiving credit towards a future purchase.
Sold At: To schools and other facilities with playground equipment nationwide between January 2006 and December 2011 for about $2300.
Importers: None Listed
Manufacturers: Landscape Structures Inc., of Delano, Minn.
Distributors: None Listed
Manufactured In: United States
Custom Label: None Listed
Custom Field: None Listed