El Rancho Furniture Recalls Wooden Bunk Beds Due to Entrapment Death
El Rancho Furniture is recalling approximately 10,000 to 14,000 wooden bunk beds after a two-year-old child died from head entrapment. Consumers should discard or destroy the beds immediately.
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 a two-year-old child died as a result of the defect, which meets the rubric criterion for a score of 5 (Critical) due to known fatalities.
Plain-English summary
El Rancho Furniture, now owned by Seffi Industries Inc., is recalling approximately 10,000 to 14,000 wooden bunk beds. The recall follows the death of a two-year-old child in Lake Worth, Florida, whose head became trapped between the mattress and the guardrail of the bed. The space between the mattress frame and guardrail was large enough for the child's body to pass through but small enough to catch the head.
The affected beds are constructed of pine wood and feature twin-size mattress supports on both the top and bottom bunks. They can be identified by a caution label on the inside frame of the bottom bunk that identifies El Rancho Furniture or Seffi Industries as the manufacturer. These beds were sold for approximately $199.00 each at furniture retail stores between May 1990 and October 12, 1994.
Children should discontinue using the beds immediately. Because the firm is out of business, consumers are instructed to discard or destroy these beds immediately. The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) voluntary standard for bunk beds requires that spaces between the guardrail and bed frame without the mattress measure less than 3 1/2 inches.
The recalled product
- Product
- Seffi El Rancho wooden bunk beds
- Manufacturer
- El Rancho Furniture
- Category
- Consumer Product — Furniture
- Hazard
Distribution
Distributed nationwide across the United States.
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