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Product Recall Number: 20-704

Why was Spider Climb playground climbers recalled?

The climbing level platforms were designed too far apart, posing a fall hazard to children who can fall climbing from one level to the next.

Spider Climb playground climbers
Here's product recall specific data for Spider Climb playground climbers.

  • Product Recall Number: 20-704

  • Product Safety Warning Number:

  • Date: 2019-10-18

  • Product Safety Warning Date:

  • Name Of Product: Spider Climb playground climbers

  • Description: This recall involved Spider Climb enclosed vertical rope and plastic platform playground climbers installed in approximately 200 McDonald’s Restaurant Play Places. The climbers are designed with plastic platforms, ropes, cables and chains for children to scale inside a multi-level enclosed tower assembly.

  • Hazard Description: The climbing level platforms were designed too far apart, posing a fall hazard to children who can fall climbing from one level to the next.

  • Consumer Action: None Listed

  • Original Product Safety Warning Announcement: None Listed

  • Remedy Type: Repair

  • Units: About 200

  • Incidents: There have been 37 incidents resulting in 34 reports of injuries.

  • Remedy: Soft Play has contacted all purchasers directly and installed all additional platforms free of charge to reduce the distance between platforms.

  • Sold At: Exclusively to and installed at about 200 McDonald’s Restaurant Play Places nationwide from February 2016 through October 2018 for about $350.

  • Importers: None Listed

  • Manufacturers: Soft Play LLC, of Huntersville, N.C.

  • Distributors: None Listed

  • Manufactured In: United States

  • Custom Label: None Listed

  • Custom Field: None Listed