WASHINGTON - The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission reissued a recall for the Fisher-Price Rock ‘n Play Sleeper on Monday, along with releasing the news that eight more deaths have reportedly occurred in the product since the initial recall in April of 2019. This brings the total reported death count to more than 90 associated with the product.
- A recall has been reissued for the Fisher-Price Rock ‘n Play Sleeper
- There have been 8 deaths since the first recall in April 2019
- A commissioner said the original recall resolutions were too narrow
According to a release from the USCPSC, “Approximately 100 deaths have reportedly occurred while infants were in the products. Fisher-Price notes that in some of the reports, it has been unable to confirm the circumstances of the incidents or that the product was a Rock ‘n Play Sleeper.”
Additionally, Commissioner Robert Trumka, Jr. released a statement decrying Fisher-Price’s handling of the recall, saying the original was too narrowly implemented.
Trumka said in his statement, “Fisher-Price’s Rock ‘n Play recall was not good enough to remove these products from homes. The incentives Fisher Price offered were inadequate to draw in enough consumers, and the hurdles were too many. Now, eight infants have died after the recall, tragically bringing the death toll associated with the product to over 90 babies.”
His statement pointed out that the original recall only reimbursed buyers during a six-month period, while the recall from the USCPSC said the product was sold during an almost 10-year period from 2009 to 2019.
Trumka’s statement added, “CPSC is working on a regulation to implement the Safe Sleep for Babies Act, a law that banned infant sleep products with inclines of over 10 degrees that are ‘intended, marketed, or designed to provide sleeping accommodations for an infant up to 1 year old.’"
"Fisher-Price’s Rock ‘n Play recall was not good enough to remove these products from homes."Richard Trumka Jr, commissioner, United States Consumer Product Safety Commission
“In doing so, we will have to determine whether the law bans the Fisher-Price Infant-to-Toddler Rocker and scores of other products that may look similar, may share similar characteristics, but are called things like bouncers, loungers, or swings.”
The Infant-to-Toddler Rocker has reportedly been associated with 13 deaths, according to a statement from Trumka in June 2022.
The recall for the Rock ‘n Play Sleeper includes a provision that is now illegal to sell or distribute the product.
All users can receive a prepaid shipping label from Fisher-Price to send in their products’ "hubs," or small round bits with spokes that support the product. There are varying resolutions from full refunds to vouchers for other Fisher-Price products, depending on date of purchase. All resolutions are expected to take 12-16 weeks.
