18 months after recalling approximately 1 million Maclaren Strollers because their hinge mechanism poses a laceration and fingertip amputation risk to children, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission is reissuing the recall. The CPSC and Maclaren USA had made the 2009 announcement following 15 injury reports involving kids putting their finger in the mechanism, resulting in 12 fingertip amputations.
Since then, however, the CPSC says there have been another 37 reports of injuries, including 16 fingertip entrapments, 5 amputations, and 16 lacerations. That's about 149 reported incidents involving the strollers. If your child was one of those injured in the Orange County, California area, you should contact our Anaheim products liability law firm right away.
The recalled strollers, which include both double and single umbrella strollers, were sold between 1999 and November 2009. Newer strollers now come with a different hinge mechanism. Maclaren will provide consumers with a repair kit.
Fingertip Amputation
Fingertip amputation is very painful and traumatic for anyone--especially a young child. Loss of motion and loss of feeling can result. Meantime, repairing the injury might require use of skin grafts or skin flaps. In some instances, doctors may not be able to reattach a fingertip.
Surprisingly, fingertip amputations make up 2/3rds of child hand injuries in this country. It is important, then, that manufacturers don't make any products that carry this type of injury risk. Yet it was just in January 2010 that Graco recalled 1.5 million strollers because their canopy hinge mechanism posed similar injury hazards as the mechanism on the Maclaren strollers.
US reissues 2009 Maclaren stroller recall, AP/MSNBC, May 12, 2011
Graco Stroller Recall: 1.5 Million Strollers Called Back, ABC News, January 20, 2010
Maclaren USA Recalls to Repair Strollers Following Fingertip Amputation, CPSC, November 9, 2009
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Our Orange County, California products liability lawyers represent families whose kids were hurt because a product was defective, malfunctioned, or proved hazardous for use. It is amazing how many products designed for kids and babies are recalled each year because of the danger they pose or because children have been injured or killed. There is no reason for you not to hold a negligent manufacturer liable in civil court.
