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Fall / CollapseOctober 27, 2000CPSC #01021

CPSC, The Betesh Group Announce Recall of "John Lennon" Crib Mobiles

Product
Cribs
Units affected
47,000
Remedy
replacement

What was recalled

John Lennon Musical Mobiles hang from white wooden dowels that attach to cribs with white clamps. "John LennonTM" and "MADE IN CHINA" is written on the wind-up music box that turns the mobile. The music box plays the song, "Imagine." The mobile has colorful wooden cut-outs of a rhinoceros, two elephants, a giraffe and a bird hanging from yellow ribbons. Below each animal is a round disk with a drawing of the animal it hangs from on the bottom.

Hazard

The screws that connect the mobile's arm assembly and crib clamp can become loose if overtightened. The arms can detach and fall into the crib, injuring the baby inside.

Injuries

CPSC and The Betesh Group have received seven reports of bumps and scratches to babies after the mobiles attached to their cribs fell on them.

Made in

China

Where it was sold

  • Department and specialty stores sold these mobiles, from June 1999 through August 2000, for about $39.

Photos

Recalled "John Lennon" crib mobile
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