Bean Bag Chairs Recalled After Child Deaths
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
and Ace Bayou Corp., of New Orleans, La., announced a voluntary
recall of about 2.2 million Chinese-made bean bag chairs following the deaths of two
children.
According to the CPSC, the zippers on the bean bag chairs can be opened and children can
then crawl inside, get trapped and suffocate or choke on the bean bag
chair’s foam beads. The voluntary standard requires non-refillable bean
bag chairs to have closed and permanently disabled zippers.
A 13-year old boy from McKinney, Texas died and a 3-year-old girl
from Lexington, Ky. died after suffocating from lack of air and inhaling
the chair’s foam beads. Both children were found inside the chairs.
The recalled bean bag chairs have two zippers that can be unzipped
and opened, including one of the exterior cover and other directly
underneath that zipper. The recalled chairs with zippers that open were
sold in a variety of sizes, shapes, colors and fabrics. They include
round or L-shaped, vinyl or fabric, and are filled with polystyrene foam
beads. They were sold in a variety of colors, including purple, violet,
blue, red, pink, yellow, Kelly green, black, port, navy, lime, royal
blue, turquoise, tangerine and multi-color. The round bean bag chairs
were sold in three sizes, 30, 32 and 40 inches in diameter. The L-shaped
bean bag chair measures 18 inches wide by 30 inches deep by 30 inches
high. “ACE BAYOU CORP” is printed on a tag sewn into the bean bag
chair’s cover seam.
The recalled bean bag chairs were sold at Bon-Ton, Meijer, Pamida, School Specialty, Wayfair and Walmart stores and online at Amazon.com, Meijer.com and Walmart.com before July 2013 for between $30 and $100.
The CPSC says that consumers should check their bean bag chairs for any zippers that can
open, take those that can open away from children immediately and
contact Ace Bayou for a free repair kit to permanently disable the
zippers so that they cannot be opened.
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