
Playskool Team Talkin' Tool Bench™
The oversized plastic toy nails sold with the tool bench toys can become lodged in children's throats, posing a suffocation hazard.
- Suffocation
- About 255,000 units
- Incidents reported
Brand
24 official CPSC notices naming Playskool, 1980–2006, across children & toys.
Totals add up the figures the notices state, counting a reannounced recall once; 6 of 24 notices add a unit count. A notice that gives no number adds nothing.
Every model number named in a Playskool recall, grouped by notice. Type the number from your product label.
1 model number
Playskool Sesame Street Busy Poppin' Pals toys · 01-050 · 2000
12 notices where the recalled products are toys & play sets.

The oversized plastic toy nails sold with the tool bench toys can become lodged in children's throats, posing a suffocation hazard.

The toy, which is designed to encourage crawling babies to pull themselves up and stand, can tip over during use and strike falling babies in the head, face or neck, resulting in injuries.

On certain units, the yellow "awning" piece above the bus' door can break loose, posing a choking hazard to young children.

Small springs inside these toys can break loose, posing a choking and laceration hazard to young children.

The toy's brightly colored end knobs can detach and allow small geometric-shaped pieces to come loose, posing a choking hazard to infants and young children.

Small springs inside the toy can break loose, posing a choking and laceration hazard to young children.
4 notices where the recalled products are cribs & bassinets.
2 notices where the recalled products are high chairs & booster seats.
One notice where the recalled product is a baby carrier.
One notice where the recalled product is a pacifier and teether.
Playskool notices outside the product types above.
The recall contact each official notice gives, newest first. Contacts can change after a notice is published; the notice itself is the final word.
As of October 1, 2026, CPSC has published 24 recall notices naming Playskool consumer products between 1980 and 2006, covering at least 1.7 million units.
No. As of October 1, 2026, CPSC has published no recall notice naming Playskool consumer products in 2026. The most recent was announced September 22, 2006 (CPSC 06-266).
Toys & play sets (12), cribs & bassinets (4), high chairs & booster seats (2), baby carriers & slings (1), pacifiers & teethers (1) and 4 other notices.
“CPSC, Playskool Announce Recall to Replace Infant Toys” (CPSC 00-181), announced September 14, 2000: about 550,000 units.
Find the model number on the product's rating label, then type it into the model-number lookup on this page. A match means the number appears in an official CPSC notice; open that notice to confirm any date codes or serial ranges it lists. No match is not proof that a product is safe.
Each notice names its own recall contact; the contacts for every Playskool notice are listed on this page. For the most recent one, Playskool Team Talkin' Tool Bench™ (CPSC 06-266), call (800) 509-9554 and go to www.playskool.com.