About 500,000 bassinets made by Burlington Basket Company are being recalled. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission along with the company have issued the voluntary recall due to a fall hazard.
If the cross-bracing rails are not fully locked into position, the bassinets can collapse causing the infant to fall to the floor or fall within the bassinet and suffer injuries.
CPSC and Burlington Basket Company have received 10 reports of such incidents happening. Two infants received minor as a result of the collapses, including a bruise to the head and a bruised shoulder.
The recall includes all Burlington Basket bassinets manufactured before June 2010. Affected models have folding legs attached to the basket with white plastic pins. Units with non-folding legs attached with metal pins are not included in the recall. The recalled bassinets were sold from January 2003 through August 2010 at Walmart and other mass merchandisers, department stores and juvenile product stores nationwide and online by various web retailers, including Amazon.com, they run about $50.
If you have one of these bassinets you are advised to immediately stop using it and check the cross-bracing support rails to make sure they are in the locked position. To properly lock the rails into place, the end tabs must be fully inserted into the holes on the leg assembly and twisted one quarter turn into the locked position, as shown in the attached photos.
For a free kit with detailed instructions on proper assembly of the cross-bracing support rails and decals with assembly instructions to place on the bassinet contact Burlington Basket Company at (800) 553-3200 between 8 a.m.-4 p.m. CT Monday through Friday, or visit their website by clicking here.
A video showing proper assembly can by viewed by clicking here.
