Aqua-Leisure Recalls Children's Trampolines Due to Fall Hazard; Sold Exclusively at Toys "R" Us Stores

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.

Name of Product: First Fitness® Trampolines with Handlebars

Units: About 40,000

Manufacturer: Aqua-Leisure Industries Inc., of Avon, Mass.

Hazard: Metal fatigue can cause the handlebar to break away during use, posing a risk of laceration from exposed metal surfaces or other injury from a fall.

Incidents/Injuries: Aqua-Leisure has received four reports of handlebars breaking from the metal connection joint during use. No injuries have been reported.

Description: This recall involves First Fitness Kid’s First trampolines with handlebars. The child-size toy trampolines have a red and blue metal handlebar, a blue nylon deck guard and a black jumping deck. “First Fitness” is embossed on the jumping deck in white letters. The trampolines can be identified by model number FF-6902TR and Toys R Us SKN 491463. The model and store numbers can be found on the lower right corner of the back of the packaging. A sewn-in tag on the bottom of the deck lists the factory date code of five numbers followed by “GLTX.”

Sold Exclusively at: Toys “R” Us stores nationwide from September 2010 through April 2012 for between $45 and $70.

Manufactured in: China

Remedy: Consumers should immediately take the recalled trampolines from children and contact Aqua-Leisure’s recall hotline for a full refund.

Consumer Contact: For additional information, please contact Aqua-Leisure toll-free at (888) 912-7087 between 8:00 a.m. through 5:00 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or visit the firm’s website at www.aqualeisure.com

Safety 1st Toilet and Cabinet Locks Recalled Due to Lock Failure; Children Can Gain Unintended Access to Water and Dangerous Items

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.

Name of Product: Toilet and Cabinet Locks

Units: About 183,000 toilet locks and 685,000 cabinet locks

Importer: Dorel Juvenile Group (DJG) Inc., of Columbus, Ind.

Hazard: Young children can unexpectedly disengage the toilet locks and gain access to water in the toilet, posing the risk of drowning. The cabinet locks are being recalled because young children can disengage the lock, posing the risk of injury from dangerous or unsafe items stored in the cabinet.

Incidents/Injuries: DJG has received 110 reports of toilet locks that did not adequately secure the lid, including eight reports of children, under the age of two, who were able to disengage or break the lock. In addition, DJG has received 278 reports of cabinet locks that did not adequately secure the cabinet, including 71 reports of children between the ages of eight months and five years old who were able to disengage the cabinet locks. In one of the reported incidents, a 13-month-old boy swallowed small, toxic beads from a craft kit. The child was admitted to the hospital, observed overnight and released the next day.

Description: This recall involves Safety 1st Sure Fit toilet locks with model numbers 48003 and 48103. The toilet lock is attached to the tank behind the lid and is intended to prevent a child’s access to the toilet bowl. This recall also involves Safety 1st cabinet slide locks with model numbers 12013 and 12014. The cabinet slide lock is attached to cabinet knobs or handles to prevent access to the contents of the cabinet. Model numbers can be found on the back of the locks.

Sold at: Bed, Bath and Beyond, Burlington Coat Factory, Great Beginnings, Home Depot, Target and Walmart from January 2005 through April 2010 for between $8 and $20 for the toilet locks, and from January 2000 through March 2009 for between $2 and $11 for the cabinet locks. Amazon.com sold both locks through April 2012.

Manufactured in: China

Remedy: Consumers should immediately remove the recalled locks and contact DJG for a free replacement lock of a different model. When removing the recalled locks, consumers are urged to immediately store dangerous items out of reach of children and to prevent unsupervised access to bathrooms.

Consumer Contact: For additional information, please contact DJG toll-free at (877) 416-8105 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or visit the firm’s website atwww.djgusa.com. In March 2012, 900,000 Safety 1st Push ‘N Snap cabinet locks were recalled due to lock failure.

The Riverhead location of the building-material supply 84 Lumber chain is closing down. The West Main Street store is being consolidated into a "more capable" storefront in Patchogue, according to a company spokesman.

The company believes the consolidation will allow it to better serve its professional contractors, which make up 85 percent of its customer base in Riverhead, 84 Lumber's vice president for marketing and public relations Jeff Nobers said.

The company serves "do-it yourself" customers as well, but Nobers said that the Patchogue storefront has been better suited for the casual consumer.

"We realize that people aren't going to drive from Riverhead to Patchogue to buy a shed," he said in a phone interview Wednesday, "but [the consolidation] will make us more capable of servicing professional business."

The Riverhead storefront is already closed to walk-in traffic, but it will finish existing professional jobs as the consolidation winds up. Nobers said he did not have an exact date for the cessation of all operations in Riverhead.

Nobers said that the recent renovations of  the Patchogue store, including "hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of remodel[ing] and remerchandis[ing]," will make the Patchogue location, at155 Sills Road E., a larger store more suited to both professional and consumer retail business.

84 Lumber also closed its Islip location in October 2011. 

"We're here to stay on the island," Nobers said, "but we've really looked at the market and how we can service the market now, and it made a lot more sense to consolidate the location. 

Founded in 1956 in Eighty Four, Penn. where it is still headquartered, 84 Lumber owns and operates more than 280 stores nationwide. Its Patchogue store is located at 

84 Lumber built the existing 18,000-square-foot main building and two storage buildings (12,000 square feet and 6,000 square feet respectively) in 1984, according to a flyer prepared by the company soliciting tenants for the site.

The fate of the 5.6-acre property at 1751 W. Main St., near Tanger Mall Drive, is still up in the air, Nobers said. Title to the property is currently held by Spirit Spe Portfolio 2007-2 LLC and 84 Lumber plans to buy it back, he said. The company will then sell the property, he said.

Riverhead Industrial Development Agency director Tracy Stark-James said she's been told the property is not currently for sale. She provided RiverheadLOCAL with a flyer she got from 84 Lumber's real estate division offering the site for lease.

"People who have approached the IDA are looking to buy, not lease," Stark-James said.

The property lies within the state-designated recreational rivers protection zone, Riverhead Town planning director Rick Hanley said.  That makes potential reuse of the site somewhat tricky. 

"I believe someone looking to re-establish the same use would be able to get a variance from the DEC," Hanley said.

The recreational river designation, put in place in the late 1980s, comes with stringent land use restrictions under the state Wild, Scenic and Recreational Rivers Act and regulations promulgated by the DEC pursuant to the statute.

RiverheadLOCAL photo by Emil Breitenbach Jr.

84 Lumber Property flyer

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and five retailers are announcing a voluntary recall to provide refunds to consumers who own crib tents and play yard tents made by Tots in Mind, Inc.

CPSC is warning parents and caregivers who own these products that infants and toddlers are at risk of serious injury or death due to strangulation and entrapment hazards presented by these products. Tots in Mind recalled the play yard tents in July 2010 and offered a repair kit that is no longer available. The company is no longer in business and has stopped all sales. CPSC staff urges parents and caregivers to stop using these crib tents and play yard tents immediately. Do not attempt to repair these products.

CPSC is aware of 27 tent failures including one fatality and one serious injury that occurred between January 1997 and

April 2012 from crib tents and play yard tents made by Tots in Mind, Inc. In 2008, a two year old boy died after becoming entrapped between the bottom rail of a play yard tent and the top rail of a play yard. The fatality was reported in a prior recall with the firm in July 15, 2010.

In 2007, a two year old boy sustained a catastrophic brain injury when the crib tent affixed to his crib tent inverted and the product's broken rod trapped him at the neck. The remaining 25 reports to CPSC involved inverted crib tents-entrapments between the tent and the crib/play yard or failures of the tent fabric and zippers. Three of these 25 reports also resulted in injuries; in one such case, a parent reported finding her child turning blue and entrapped between the product and the top rail of the play yard.

Since Tots in Mind, Inc. is out of business, retailers who sold these products have stepped up to offer refunds or store credit to consumers. The crib tents and play yard tents can present an entrapment and strangulation hazard to infants and toddlers if the dome portion inverts inside the crib or play yard, or if the product becomes partially detached from the crib or play yard. The recalled products were sold at numerous retail stores including Bed Bath & Beyond/Buy Buy Baby, Burlington Coat Factory, Toys R Us/Babies R Us, Walmart and online on websites including Amazon.com, for between $60 and $85.

Consumers should contact the store listed below where the crib tent was purchased to receive either a refund or store credit, depending on the retailer. If consumer is unsure of where the crib tent was purchased, see return policy for individual retailers below on their websites:

Amazon.com [Amazon.com] 

Bed Bath & Beyond / Buy Buy Baby [bedbathandbeyond.com or buybuybaby.com or (800) GOBEYOND] 

Burlington Coat Factory [burlingtoncoatfactory.com or (888) 223-2628] 

Toys R Us/Babies R Us [toysrus.com or babiesrus.com or (800) 869-7787] 

Walmart [walmartstores.com or (800) 925-6278] 

The recall includes various models of about 330,000 crib or play yard tents. Consumers can identify their tent by the 2"x 1½" label with Tots In Mind logo located on the non-mesh portion near the top of the tent.

No model names or numbers are located on the tents, however they can be identified by pictures and the Tots in Mind logo on top of the tent.

Products involved:

Portable Playard Tent 
Original Cozy Crib Tent 
Cozy Crib Tent II 
Crib Tent for Convertible Cribs 
Portable Playard Tent Plus Cabana Kit

To see this recall on CPSC's web site, including pictures of the recalled products, please go to:
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml12/12179.html