The Recall Desk
CriticalCPSC·90083·Announced 1990-04-30

U.S. Mom's Baby's Cloud Infant Cushions Recalled for Suffocation Risk

CPSC urges consumers to destroy U.S. Mom's Baby's Cloud infant bean bag cushions due to suffocation risks reported in similar products.

What this means for you

Highest-severity recall. Risk of serious injury or death is documented or strongly suspected. Stop using the product now and follow the agency's instructions.

Our severity reasoning: The source text explicitly states that the Commission received 19 reports of infant deaths, which triggers the Critical severity score (5) per the rubric rule that reported deaths result in a score of 5 regardless of other factors.

Plain-English summary

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is issuing an urgent warning for consumers to immediately destroy any U.S. Mom's "Baby's Cloud" infant bean bag cushions in their possession. The product, a fabric-covered cushion filled with polystyrene pellets intended for infants, presents a suffocation risk.

The Commission has received 19 reports of infants found dead lying face-down on infant bean bag cushions. While none of these reported deaths involved a U.S. Mom's product specifically, the agency is taking precautionary action due to the hazard associated with this type of product. U.S. Mom's, based in Las Vegas, Nevada, sold approximately 3,500 of these cushions nationwide in small retail stores between 1985 and 1988 before going out of business. The primary retailer, GEMCO, is also out of business.

Because the manufacturer and primary retailer are no longer in operation, the CPSC staff urges consumers to destroy the product immediately rather than return it. The product is identifiable by the manufacturer's name and fiber content information attached to the cushion.

The recalled product

Product
U.S. Mom's Baby's Cloud infant cushions
Manufacturer
Baby's Cloud
Category
Consumer Product — Infant Bedding
Hazard

Distribution

Distributed nationwide across the United States.

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