Delta Crib Recall Lawsuit
A defective design in the drop-side style cribs sold since 1995 by Delta Enterprise Corp., is responsible for at least two infant deaths, and may have been responsible for many more crib related injuries and fatalities. Recently the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) published information on it's website regarding the recall of two crib models which effect over 1,585,000 Delta cribs. The CPSC states that the recall is due to the problems discovered with the safety and spring pegs.
The Delta crib recall includes over 985,000 drop side style cribs that poses the risk of entrapping and suffocating botth toddlers and infants if a safety peg located in the bottom of each leg is missing. If the safey peg is not located within the bottom track, the crib can potentially come loose and detach, when lowered below the peg hole, which creates a dangerous gap.
The cribs included in the recall were sold between the dates of December 2005 and September 2007 for around $100 at many major retailers, including Kmart, Wal-Mart and Target. The cribs are also widley resold second hand, which increases the chance of the removable safety peg missing since many of these second hand cribs had to be re-assembled. The cribs in the first recall have these model numbers located on the mattress support board label:
