Strangulation hazard recalls

Recalls where the official CPSC hazard text identifies a strangulation risk from cords, straps, drawstrings, or product openings.

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

Recall results

New08-177Clothing & Accessories

Girls' Hooded Jackets

AJBlue LLC, dba Apollo Jeans

The jackets have a drawstring through the hood, which poses a strangulation hazard to children.

  • Strangulation
  • About 14,000 units
  • No incidents reported
New08-160Children & Toys

Shims Bargain BabyTown Pacifiers

These pacifiers fail to meet federal safety standards for pacifiers. The pacifier shield is too small and could easily enter the mouth of an infant. Also, ventilation holes are too small and not placed to allow for the insertion of a tool to remove the pacifier when lodged in the mouth of a child. Finally, the package fails to display the required warning instructing consumers not to tie a pacifier around a child's neck, which would present a strangulation hazard.

  • Strangulation
  • About 45,000 units
  • No incidents reported
New08-131Furniture

Hooker Furniture Bunk Beds

The bunk beds have gaps between parts of the upper bunk that could allow a child's body to pass through but not a child's head. This poses an entrapment or strangulation hazard to children and exceeds the space allowed by the federal bunk bed safety standard.

  • Strangulation
  • Entrapment
  • About 1,300 units
  • No incidents reported
New08-030Children & Toys

Dunkin' Donuts Pink and Orange Glow Sticks

The recalled glow sticks are not properly labeled to warn consumers that the cap and lanyard can detach, posing a choking hazard. Additionally, the lanyard poses a strangulation hazard to young children.

  • Choking
  • Strangulation
  • About 1 million units
  • No incidents reported
New07-315Children & Toys

Kolcraft Play Yards

Kolcraft Enterprises

The play yards have raised changing tables that a restraint strap that forms a loop beneath the changing table, posing a strangulation hazard to a child in the play yard. In addition to the strangulation hazard with the changing table restraint strap, one play yard also has a raised cradle that rocks back and forth. A child can roll and get trapped against the side of the cradle in the Contours 3-in-1 Play Yard. If that happens, a child can suffocate.

  • Suffocation
  • Strangulation
  • About 425,000 units
  • 45 reports