Children’s storage racks sold by Wal-Mart stores are being recalled due to the death of a child. Jetmax International sold the dangerous products under the brand “Home Trend Kids 9 Canvas Bin Boys and Girls Organizers.” The Jetmax bins sold at Wal-Mart stores nationwide from August 2004 through July 2005 and at Ollie’s stores nationwide from July 2006 through last June for about $40.
The death of an 8-month old baby boy prompted the recall of 36,000 boys and girls storage racks made in China for Texas-based company Jetmax International, Limited. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) reported that the baby died when he pulled on a rack and the rack fell on him with the top rail landing on his neck. The baby was asphyxiated and died. Because the wooden storage rack can tip, children are at risk for injury, entrapment, suffocation, and death.
A few weeks before last Christmas, the mother of eight-month old Joshua said she left her baby and two older sons in the family’s playroom for just a moment to move a vacuum cleaner upstairs. Despite efforts by police and rescue crews, Joshua died from asphyxiation.
The CPSC has described the racks as a hazard to young children and has advised consumers to immediately stop children from using the recalled storage racks and contact Jetmax to receive a free repair kit that is intended to stability to the rack’s base. The wooden storage rack is intended to hold clothes or toys, and comes with three levels and nine removable canvas totes. There are wooden handles on each side of the rack and the boys storage rack has natural color wood with red, yellow, green, and navy canvas totes; the girls is white with pink, yellow, lime, and purple canvas totes.
