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CPSC, Baseline Design Announce Recall of Bean Bag Chairs

U.S. CPSCStrangulationSuffocationSold on WalmartMay 8, 2002
Recalled bean bag chairs
Recalled bean bag chairs

Photos from the official notice: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission · image rights

Hazard

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.

Remedy

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.

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.

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.

Sold on

Walmart stores sold the bean bag chairs nationwide, from September 1999 through December 1999, for about $30.

Contact the company

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 should I do?

Stop using the product and follow the remedy below. Contact the company for a refund, repair or replacement — recall remedies are free.

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