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Child’s death prompts recall of play yards Print Email
Sept 27, 2007 -- Baby supply company Kolcraft Enterprises Inc. is recalling more than 425,000 play yards after a 10-month old boy was strangled, a government safety agency announced Thursday.

The boy was inside the company’s Sesame Beginnings Travel Play Yard and the restraint strap from the elevated changing table hung down into the main play area and strangled him, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The company is now recalling a dozen different types of play yards with changing table attachments that have that type of strap.

“These play areas have a serious design flaw that poses a strangulation hazard,” said CPSC spokeswoman Patty Davis. “A 10-month-old boy died after strangling on one of the recalled Kolcraft play yards’ restraint straps. We don’t want that to happen to any other children.”