Simplicity Recalls One Million Cribs (Made in China)

FOXNews.com ^ | Friday, September 21, 2007 | Reuters

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WASHINGTON — Simplicity Inc., a supplier of baby furniture to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) and other big retailers, is recalling about 1 million Chinese-made baby cribs which have been linked to at least two infant deaths, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Friday.

The drop-side can detach from the crib, which can create a dangerous gap that leads to an infant being trapped and suffocated, the safety agency said in a statement. It urged parents to check all Simplicity-made cribs to ensure the drop-side is installed correctly.

The cribs, priced between $100 and $300, were sold by U.S. retailers and chains including Target Corp. (TGT), Big Lots Inc (BIG) and family-owned Meijer Inc.

"The drop-side failures result from both the hardware and crib design, which allow consumers to unintentionally install the drop-side upside down," the safety commission said. "This, in turn, can weaken the hardware and cause the drop-side to detach from the crib. When the drop-side detaches, it creates a gap in which infants can become entrapped."

Two separate infant

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We need to put huge tariffs on Chinese made goods and that can begin to pay for the inspections of every item that has made in China stamped on it.

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ping

[Wiz]

and the tax money should be paid to the victims of Made in China.

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We need to bring our factories home.

[conservativeinferno]

Kids in my mom’s generation played with Red Daisey BB guns and ate lead paint and they turned out to be fine. American children are a bunch of wimps.

[Sloth]

This is hardly China’s fault. Either the parents are to blame for assembling the thing wrong, or the maker is to blame for designing it and/or writing the assembly instructions such that incorrect assembly is likely to occur.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

How long will it be before the Chicoms call Simplicity CEO’s in for a televised grovel fest about design defects by Simplicity, etc., and no fault owed to Chicom manufacturing, etc. — or face a complete shutoff of supply, as obviously happened with Mattel Toys. In China, it’s the supplier who is always right.

[eyedigress]

All three cases were linked to the same error. Installation was wrong, the drop slide was installed up-side down. While it never would have happened in my house they should have not allowed the design flaw to happen.

(I had a daisy at 7 and never shot my eye out, but my brother sure tried, LOL)

[Sloth]

I’m not sure that infants suffocating really proves that they’re “wimps.”

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You may be right, but we still need to bring our factories home.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

This is not China’s fault! Poor design by an American company, combined with parents who are unable to follow simple instructions, and actually put a part on upside-down, is what led to these unfortunate deaths. The Chinese company built exactly what they were asked to build. The Chinese are not the catch-all boogeyman for all product problems.

[Kirkwood]

“You may be right, but we still need to bring our factories home.”

You can’t afford it. Are you going to pay 10x more for products? Didn’t think so.

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I think the call already went through.

[grey_whiskers]

Kids in my mom’s generation played with Red Daisey BB guns and ate lead paint and they turned out to be fine.

Anti-liberal Sarcasm Torpedo^TM ARMED. FIRE!!

They ate the lead paint, which drastically lowered their IQ.

As a result of low IQ, they joined DU.

The final touch was to conclude that their diminished capacities were the result of the BB-guns rather than the paint.

And that's why DU is anti-gun.

Full Disclosure: That's my story, and I'm sticking to it until I change my mind. :-)

Cheers!

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Will I pay ten times more for a product that has quality? Dang right I will.

At one time we had factories here and people paid for product.

[grey_whiskers]

You can’t afford it. Are you going to pay 10x more for products? Didn’t think so.

I haven't noticed that the price of furniture has shown a 10-fold *drop* recently.

Even with inflation, and the C-level executives retaining most of the savings from the wage arbitrage, I don't see it.

Please reconsider.

Cheers!

[Hawk1976]

I agree. Companies that ship their manufacturing to China should have to have every product inspected and reinspected and subject to rigorous reviews for anything in their products, along with mandating multiple angle, full-color instructions. Maybe if we can make it expensive enough they will decide “American made” isn't such an expense with them.

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fixin my tag line

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LOL

[stephenjohnbanker]

“At one time we had factories here and people paid for product”

Before quarterly profits began to dictate corporate compensation.