Entrapment hazard recalls

Recalls where the official CPSC hazard text identifies an entrapment risk involving gaps, openings, rails, or moving components.

454 supported household-product notices found in official CPSC data.

Recall results

New07-096Children & Toys

Easy-Bake Ovens

Young children can insert their hands into the oven's opening and get their hands or fingers caught, posing an entrapment and burn hazard.

  • Burn
  • Entrapment
  • About 985,000 units
  • 29 reports
New06-149Sports & Outdoors

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.

  • Laceration
  • Entrapment
  • About 48,000 units
  • 2 reports, 2 injuries
New06-504Children & Toys

Child Craft Cribs

Child Craft Industries

A wooden strip added to the end assemblies of the crib to correct a spacing problem could come loose, creating a space, in violation of the federal crib standard, and posing a risk of entrapment. In addition, the three pin nails used to hold the strip in place pose a laceration hazard if the wooden strip detaches.

  • Laceration
  • Entrapment
  • 155 units
  • No incidents reported
New05-260Children & Toys

Pottery Barn Kids Spindle Crib

The spindles on the crib's front rail can loosen and detach from the rail. This can allow the child to fall from the crib and poses a risk of entrapment.

  • Fall
  • Entrapment
  • About 7,600 units
  • 6 reports
New05-234Furniture

Kid's Folding Chairs

Fourstar Group

The chair's safety lock can fail, allowing the chair to collapse or fold unexpectedly. Children's fingers can become caught or entrapped in the hinge and slot areas of the chair, posing a pinch or cut hazard. This can cause severe lacerations and finger tip amputations to children's fingers.

  • Laceration
  • Entrapment
  • About 522,000 units
  • 3 reports
New05-233Furniture

Idea Nuova Children's Folding Chairs

The chair's safety lock can fail, allowing the chair to collapse or fold unexpectedly. Children's fingers can become caught or entrapped in the hinge and slot areas of the chair, posing a pinch or cut hazard. This can cause severe lacerations and finger tip amputations to children's fingers.

  • Laceration
  • Entrapment
  • About 1.1 million units
  • 5 reports
New05-232Furniture

Meco Juvenile Folding Chairs

Children's fingers can become caught or entrapped in the hinge and slot areas of the chair, posing a pinch or cut hazard. Note: In 2004, Meco recalled red-colored children's folding chairs because paint on the chair contained excessive lead levels, posing a lead poisoning hazard to young children.

  • Laceration
  • Entrapment
  • About 175,000 units
  • 3 reports
New05-181Furniture

Children's Folding Chairs

Summit Marketing International

The chair's safety lock can fail, allowing the chair to collapse or fold unexpectedly. Children's fingers can become caught or entrapped in the hinge and slot areas of the chair, posing a pinch or cut hazard. This can cause severe lacerations and fingertip amputations to children's fingers.

  • Laceration
  • Entrapment
  • 2 million units
  • 7 reports
New05-163Furniture

Children's Folding Chair

Atico International

The chair's safety lock can fail, allowing the chair to collapse or fold unexpectedly. Children's fingers can become caught or entrapped in the hinge and slot areas of the chair, posing a pinch or cut hazard. This can cause severe lacerations and fingertip amputations to children's fingers.

  • Laceration
  • Entrapment
  • About 1.5 million units
  • 4 reports
New05-137Children & Toys

Graco Toddler Bed

Graco Children's Products

A child's arm, leg or foot can become entrapped between the slats in the guard rails or footboard. This can result in broken bones, sprains and other injuries to young children.

  • Entrapment
  • About 1.2 Million units
  • 77 reports, 54 injuries
Models
New05-131Children & Toys

Portable Cribs

Delta Enterprise

The crib slats can separate from the headboard, posing an entrapment risk to young children. In addition, children can fall through the slat opening.

  • Fall
  • Entrapment
  • About 10,000 units
  • 8 reports