CPSC, Baseline Design Announce Recall of Bean Bag
CPSC, Baseline Design Announce Recall of Bean Bag Chairs
Why was CPSC, Baseline Design Announce Recall of Bean Bag recalled?
The bean bags contain small polystyrene beads that present suffocation and strangulation hazards to young children who may inhale the small beads. The recalled bean bag chairs have zippers that were not properly sealed to prevent young children from opening the bean bag chairs and being exposed to the small beads.
What should I do if I have this product?
Consumers should inspect their bean bag chairs. If the zippers can be opened freely, Baseline Design will provide owners with a free replacement bean bag chair with zippers that do not open. Contact: For more information and instructions consumers should call Baseline Design toll-free at (800) 497-3626, Monday through Friday, 8 am to 5 pm, EST or visit the firm's website at www.foamex.com
What to do with a recalled product: refunds, receipts, safe disposal and how to report a problem.
Is my product affected?
Compare the item in your hand with every identifier below from the official CPSC record. Only products that match the listed product and identifiers are part of this recall.
- Product
- Bean bag chairs
- Company
- Baseline Design, of Linwood, Pa.
- Quantity
- About 30,000
- Sold at
- Walmart stores sold the bean bag chairs nationwide, from September 1999 through December 1999, for about $30.
- Recall date
- May 8, 2002
- Incidents / injuries
- Baseline Design is aware of three incidents in which the zippers opened freely. Two of the incidents involved young children, who were able to open the bean bag chair zippers, and gain excess to the small polystyrene beads.
- Agency
- CPSC
Product description
The bean bag chairs are designed with 12-inch double zippers in various types of motifs: a smiley face, a football-shape, a baseball-shape, a basketball-shape, and solid neon green, yellow, pink and blue neon colors.