June 12, 2022
Washington – Fisher-Price said it has videos, additional safety information and warnings for the rockers and other products on its Safe Start webpage at www.fisherprice.com/SafeStart.
- The company is encouraging consumers to report incidents at 800-432-5437.
- Incidents for this and other products can also be reported to the safety commission at SaferProducts.gov.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a stern new warning for a popular Fisher-Price baby product after at least 13 babies died: Never use the rockers for sleep.
Driving the news: CPSC and Fisher-Price issued an alert Tuesday for the company’s Infant-to-Toddler Rockers and Newborn-to-Toddler Rockers after “at least 13 reported deaths” occurred between 2009 and 2021.
- The announcement is being called a “safety notice” and not a recall per Mattel, Fisher-Price’s parent company.
- The rockers “should never be used for sleep and infants should never be unsupervised or unrestrained,” the safety commission said.
- Fisher-Price has sold more than 17 million rockers worldwide since the 1990s.
- A separate warning was also issued Tuesday for Bright Starts and Baby Einstein rockers by the commission and company Kids2.
What they’re saying: “Parents and caregivers should never use inclined products, such as rockers, gliders, soothers, and swings, for infant sleep and should not leave infants in these products unsupervised, unrestrained, or with bedding material, due to the risk of suffocation,” the commission said in a statement.
- U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) called for a recall, saying in a tweet Tuesday that “Fisher-Price & Kids2 must immediately cooperate with the CPSC & recall these deadly rockers.”
- “Companies should not market or depict infant products such as rockers, gliders, and inclined products as a way to get babies to sleep or as sleep products, since they are not safe for infant sleep,” Dev Gowda, assistant director of Kids In Danger, said in a statement.
