Recall Category: Kids Recalls
Recall Date: 2000-10-27T00:00:00
Product: John Lennon crib mobiles
Company: Department and specialty stores sold these mobiles, from June 1999 through August 2000, for about $39.
Hazard: The screws that connect the mobile's arm assembly and crib clamp can become loose if overtightened. The arms can detach and fall into the crib, injuring the baby inside.
Description: John Lennon Musical Mobiles hang from white wooden dowels that attach to cribs with white clamps. "John LennonTM" and "MADE IN CHINA" is written on the wind-up music box that turns the mobile. The music box plays the song, "Imagine." The mobile has colorful wooden cut-outs of a rhinoceros, two elephants, a giraffe and a bird hanging from yellow ribbons. Below each animal is a round disk with a drawing of the animal it hangs from on the bottom.
Remedy: Consumers should stop using these mobiles immediately, and call The Betesh Group to receive a free replacement plastic mobile with stuffed animals.
Incidents / Injuries: CPSC and The Betesh Group have received seven reports of bumps and scratches to babies after the mobiles attached to their cribs fell on them.
Recall Number: 01021
Product Type: Cribs / Beds / Sleep Products, Baby / Infant Products
Hazard Type: Fall / Injury Hazard