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Gel Fuel For Outdoor Patio Firepots Recalled Due To Serious Burns And Deaths

admin — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 22:48:19 +0000

As reported in The New York Times, consumers were urged today by Inez Tenenbaum, head of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), to stop using the pourable gel fuel and to contact the manufacturer or distributor for a refund. “It’s a dangerous product that we want to warn consumers to stop using,” Tenenbaum said. “Stop, drop and roll or trying to smother it (the flames) does not work.” Flash fires created by the thick, alcohol-based gels are difficult to put out with water and more effectively stopped with dry powder extinguishers, Tenenbaum added.

The CPSC reports 65 incidents “resulting in two deaths and 34 victims who were hospitalized with second and third degree burns of the face, chest, hands, arms or legs.”

To see a complete list of fuel gel manufacturers that have recalled their products and to submit a complaint, please visit Lieff Cabraser’s Firepot Fuel Gel Recall information page.

Largest Crib Recall in US History Announced

admin — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:21:33 +0000

The United States’ Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced the largest crib recalls in United States history, involving cribs with dropdown sides, fearing these drop-down cribs may be unsafe, even deadly.

The recall involves approximately 1.2 million Stork Craft Manufacturing cribs, some sold with Fisher-Price logos, distributed in the United States and almost one million cribs distributed in Canada. Read a copy of the CPSC recall notice. And now there is a major push to ban those types of cribs. The federal government has recalled nearly 5 million cribs in the past two years — many of them with drop down sides.

Read the full story on the MSNBC news site. Learn more about the crib recall and the legal rights of parents whose infants were injured.

Window blinds recalled for strangulation risk

admin — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:18:50 +0000

Nearly 1 million roller blinds and Roman shades sold by IKEA, Bed Bath & Beyond and Hanover Direct were recalled Tuesday for posing a serious strangulation risk to small children.

A child’s neck can get tangled in the inner cord of Roman shades or the exposed loop of roller blinds, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The recall includes about 533,000 ISDANS, TUPPLUR and ENJE roller blinds manufactured in Taiwan and France and sold by IKEA Home Furnishings of Conshohocken, Pa. between July 2005 and July 2009.