Safety regulator, Baseline Design Announce Recall of Bean Bag Chairs
Recall 02539 · May 8, 2002 · Baseline Design
30,000
units affected
30,000
units affected
Facts
- Recall number
- 02539
- Date
- May 8, 2002
- Company
- Baseline Design
- Units affected
- 30,000
- Product
- Bean bag chairs
- Product type
- Bean Bag Chairs
- Hazard
- Suffocation
The product
The bean bag chairs are designed with 12-inch double zippers in various types of motifs: a smiley face, a football-shape, a baseball-shape, a basketball-shape, and solid neon green, yellow, pink and blue neon colors.
What can happen
The bean bags contain small polystyrene beads that present suffocation and strangulation hazards to young children who may inhale the small beads. The recalled bean bag chairs have zippers that were not properly sealed to prevent young children from opening the bean bag chairs and being exposed to the small beads.
The fix
Consumers should inspect their bean bag chairs. If the zippers can be opened freely, Baseline Design will provide owners with a free replacement bean bag chair with zippers that do not open.
Incidents and where it was sold
- Incidents
- Baseline Design is aware of three incidents in which the zippers opened freely. Two of the incidents involved young children, who were able to open the bean bag chair zippers, and gain excess to the small polystyrene beads.
- Sold at
- Walmart stores sold the bean bag chairs nationwide, from September 1999 through December 1999, for about $30.
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Questions and answers
What should I do with the recalled bean bag chairs?
Consumers should inspect their bean bag chairs. If the zippers can be opened freely, Baseline Design will provide owners with a free replacement bean bag chair with zippers that do not open.
What is the hazard?
The bean bags contain small polystyrene beads that present suffocation and strangulation hazards to young children who may inhale the small beads. The recalled bean bag chairs have zippers that were not properly sealed to prevent young children from opening the bean bag chairs and being exposed to the small beads.
A recall means the maker found a safety problem and offers a free fix; it does not mean every unit has the problem. Units affected are as reported by the company. Popular models sell more and so have more recalls and complaints. Official public data; texts are shortened. Contact the company named above for the remedy.