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Product Recall Number: 18-066

Why was Children’s toilet step stools recalled?

The top removable step (hat) on the recalled children’s toilet step stools can detach while a child is standing on it, posing injury and fall hazards.

Children’s toilet step stools
Here's product recall specific data for Children’s toilet step stools.

  • Product Recall Number: 18-066

  • Product Safety Warning Number:

  • Date: 2017-12-19

  • Product Safety Warning Date:

  • Name Of Product: Children’s toilet step stools

  • Description: This recall involves the SquattyPottymus children’s toilet step stools used to assist a child in reaching a toilet seat. The plastic step stools measure about 15.8 by 16.8 by 10 inches and were sold individually or as a part of a set, which included a toilet seat and decorative stickers. The step stool is designed to look like a gray hippopotamus with blue or purple eyes. It has a height-adjusting aqua blue hat top step and cut-outs that function as handles on each side.

  • Hazard Description: The top removable step (hat) on the recalled children’s toilet step stools can detach while a child is standing on it, posing injury and fall hazards.

  • Consumer Action: None Listed

  • Original Product Safety Warning Announcement: None Listed

  • Remedy Type: Refund

  • Units: About 2,400

  • Incidents: Squatty Potty has received two reports of children falling from the toilet step stool, resulting in one child hitting her chin on the toilet and biting the inside of her mouth causing her to bleed. Another child fell and hit his head on a wall.

  • Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the children’s toilet step stools until they remove the hat. Consumers should contact Squatty Potty for instructions on returning the hat portion of the stool, free of cost, for a $10 refund.

  • Sold At: Online at squattypotty.com and Amazon.com from September 2017 through November 2017 for about $50

  • Importers: Squatty Potty, LLC, of St. George, Utah.

  • Manufacturers: Manu Changzhou Future International Business Mafacturer, from China

  • Distributors: Squatty Potty, LLC, of St. George, Utah and Amazon, of Seattle, Wash

  • Manufactured In: China

  • Custom Label: None Listed

  • Custom Field: None Listed

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