Infant Death Prompts Recall To Repair 600,000 Drop Side Cribs By Delta Enterprise;
Spring Peg Failure Can Cause Entrapment and Suffocation Hazards
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), in cooperation with Delta
Enterprise Corp., of New York, N.Y., is announcing the voluntary recall today of about 600,000 drop side cribs. The
crib’s drop side can detach when the spring peg is not engaged, which can cause an entrapment and suffocation
risk to infants and toddlers. If the spring pegs in the base of each leg of the crib are pushed back into the lower track,
the pegs can become nonfunctional. This can cause the drop side to detach from the crib and create a gap that can
entrap an infant or toddler. The recall involves all Delta drop side cribs manufactured prior to 2006 that use “Crib
Trigger Lock with Spring Peg” drop side hardware design.
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