April 2006 recalls

Children's Necklaces

Selected Trading

The recalled necklaces contain high levels of lead, posing a serious risk of lead poisoning and adverse health effects to young children.

Apollo® Steel Wide-Body Cart

Apollo Presentation Products

These audio-visual carts were sold without a safety belt, which helps prevent heavy equipment from becoming unstable and falling from the cart's upper shelf. Equipment falling on nearby consumers can cause serious injuries and death.

Hoist Exercise Benches

Hoist Fitness Systems Inc., also does business as Body Gear

The bench's front frame assembly (with the foot rest) can fail to lock into place, allowing users who grab the bench to position themselves to get their fingers entrapped between the front and back frame assemblies. This poses laceration and amputation hazards.

Arctic Cat Snowmobiles

The recalled snowmobiles fuel tank could crack and leak, allowing fuel or fuel vapors to escape, posing a fire and burn hazard.

Rocky Shoes & Boots Men's Safety Toe Waterproof Hiker Boots

Product testing has demonstrated that the boots may not comply with applicable safety standards for crush and impact resistance. Consumers could suffer impact foot injuries.

Sycamore Kids Mountain Buggy Urban Single and Urban Double

The handlebar can crack or break, causing the handlebar to detach while in use, posing a risk of injury to young children.

RedMax Gas-Powered Backpack Blowers

Hot exhaust gases can then escape from the muffler and could melt the fuel tank or ignite grease, oil or debris around the fuel tank, posing a fire hazard.

Shindaiwa Backpack Blowers

The backpack blower's muffler support bracket can break, creating an opening in the muffler body. Hot exhaust gases could then escape from the muffler and melt the fuel tank or ignite grease or debris around the fuel tank, posing a fire hazard.

Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion and Compaq Notebook Computer Batteries

An internal failure can cause the battery to overheat and melt or char the plastic case, posing a burn and fire hazard.

Colorado Custom Hardware (CCH) Camming Anchor

The cables that support climbers using these devices can fail, causing climbers to fall.

Trendset Originals Who's That Girl! Sweaters

A drawstring is threaded through the hood of the garment, posing a strangulation hazard to children.

Polaris Snowmobiles

Polaris Industries

The fastener torque securing the starter motor to the engine crankcase may not have been accurately applied during the manufacture of these snowmobiles or during the installation of an accessory starter. An improperly torqued starter motor fastener bolt may become loose and fall out, allowing the bolt to interfere with the lower steering drag link. This could allow the consumer to experience a loss of steering control.