CPSC Fines Cosco/Safety 1st $1.75 Million for Failing to Report Product Defects
Largest fine against children's product manufacturer in CPSC's history
Press Release # 01-119
Transcript
There is minimal audio for this video clip. The picture sequence is as follows:
- View of products.
- View of opened wipe warmer.
- Closer view of products.
- Closer of label reading: "COSCO."
- View of stroller.
- Close-up view of part of car seat reading: "COSCO."
- View of car sear/carrier.
- Close-up of a product reading: "COSCO - A Dorel Company."
- View of high chair.
- View of tubular crib with the mattress.
- Close-up view of crib.
- Close-up view of part of crib.
- View of crib with mattress.
- Close-up view of crib with mattress.
- Close-up of end of crib.
- Close-up view of label reading: "Safety 1st."
- View of toy car.
- Close-up view of product reading: "especially for baby."
- View of wipe warmer being closed.
- Screen reading: "SOUND BITE. CHAIRMAN ANN BROWN."
- Chairman speaking: "I want this fine to send a message to all consumer product manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. Especially those that deal with children's products. We will not tolerate companies that hide safety information from the Consumer Product Safety Commission or from the public. When a consumer suspects a safety problem with a product, the natural instinct is to call the company. Consumers should call the CPSC as well. Even one complaint could lead to a product recall."
- Screen reading: "General B-Roll from Press Conference. Washington, D.C. April 4th, 2001."
- (View of Chairman speaking, products are also seen) "...assemble them. An unknowing parent could inadvertenly install the mattress platform as a side rail...could get caught. Because the instructions for the crib were unclear, many parents made this potentially deadly...(view of audience)...of babies becoming entrapped in the mattress platform rail of these cribs over a period of 2..."
- View of Chairman standing behind a stroller while saying: "This is the Cosco stroller and a parent or a caretaker can be (view of Chairman pushing the stroller) walking along with it, and all of a sudden (view of stroller collapsing) the babies hit the ground."
- End