The replacement program was conducted in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission which advised the firm of the death of a two-year-old California boy on February 9, 1982, in an accident associated with a Creative Playthings Indoor Gym House.
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The space between the upper rung of the ladder and the platform was small enough for a child's head to be inserted and become entrapped creating a potential for strangulation. The replacement ladder that had been offered by the firm was redesigned to reduce the likelihood of head entrapment.
The Creative Playthings company that conducted the recall no longer exists. The replacement ladders are no longer available, and consumers should discard or destroy the ladder if they have the product.
And I was a big time tree climber back in the day. (hard to do growing up in Kansas, believe me!)
I remember the recall very well, because I had one of those gymsets, and still do. I think the failure of that company pushed me down the road to conservatism. This was the ultimate hippy-dippy, Ben and Jerry kind of company. If they could be killed by liberalism, anyone could.