phil&teds Clip-on Chairs
Transcript
The picture, text and audio sequence is as follows:
- Audio by narrator: "U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced an urgent warning to parents and caregivers about some phil&teds meeto clip-on chairs."
- Picture of CPSC Seal and phil&teds meeto clip-on chair packaging.
- Screen reading: "CPSC is warning parents and caregivers to immediately stop using some phil&teds meeto clip-on chairs."
- Audio: "The meeto chair is an infant toddler chair with a nylon fabric seat and a metal frame that clamps onto tables using two metal vice clamps with either a rubber clamp pad on its underside or a rubber boot covering it."
- Picture of baby doll sitting in clip-on chair, showing metal frame clamped to a table.
- Screen reading and audio: "CPSC recommends that consumers immediately stop using these chairs due to serious design problems which allow some to come loose from tables and fall while children are in them."
- Pictures of phil&teds meeto clip-on chairs.
- Audio: "The chair design also poses the danger that when one clamps releases, a child's fingers may be severely pinched, cut, crushed or amputated."
- Video showing one clamp releasing and finger caught in metal frame.
- Audio: "The meeto chairs affected by this warning do not have black plastic spacers between the table clamps and the front horizontal metal bar."
- Picture of baby doll sitting in clip-on chair, showing metal frame clamped to a table and lack of black plastic spacer.
- Audio: "Consumers should be aware that phil&teds has not agreed to a recall of this product that is acceptable to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Any remedy offered by phil&teds has not been approved by CPSC."
- Video showing a stick, caught in the metal frame when one clamp releases, breaking in half
- Audio: "CPSC staff is aware of numerous incidents where the child has been fully or partially detached from the table."
- Video showing chair with infant doll detaching from the table and falling to the floor.
- Audio: "CPSC also wants parents to know that the instructions that come with this product are confusing. Additionally the packinging actually illustrates the chair being used in ways the instructions warn against."
- Pictures showing instructions, and packaging showing the chair being used on a round table.
- Audio: "These chairs have been sold since May 2006 for about fifty dollars. So tens of thousands may have been distributed. The chair was sold at philandteds.com, Amazon.com, Buy Buy Baby, Target, Toys R Us, and other specialty stores and web sites.
- Picture of phil&teds meeto clip-on chair, and screen reading: "Sold at: philandteds.com, Amazon.com, Buy Buy Baby, Target, Toys "R" Us, other online retailers and a variety of independent juvenile specialty stores beginning May 2006 for about $50."
- Screen reading and audio: "CPSC is still interested in receiving incident or injury reports that are directly related to the phil&teds meeto clip-on chair. Please tell us about them by visiting SaferProducts.gov"
- Picture of CPSC seal.
- End