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Little Tikes™ Recalls Children’s Toy Workshop Sets and Trucks Due to Choking Hazard

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Article Date: 8/13/2009 | Resource: MLG


Little Tikes™ Recalls Children’s Toy Workshop Sets and Trucks Due to Choking Hazard

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed.
Name of Product: Little Tikes™ Workshops Sets and Trucks

Units: About 1.6 Million

Manufacturer: Little Tikes, of Hudson, Ohio

Hazard: The recalled workshop sets and trucks have oversized, plastic toy nails that can pose a choking hazard to young children.

Incidents/Injuries: The firm has received one report of an 11-month old boy from Goose Creek, S.C. who choked when the toy nail become forcefully lodged in his throat. The child was hospitalized and made a full recovery.

Description: The oversized, plastic toy nail is about 3 ¼ inches long by 1 ¼ inch in diameter and comes in red or blue colors. It has a large round head; about 1 ¼ inches below the head is a plastic ridge, slightly smaller than the nail head and about 1 inch in diameter.
They were sold with a variety of Little Tikes Children’s products.

The names, model numbers and UPC code of the products included in this recall are listed below:

Model # Name Picture
0914 Electronic Project Workshop
SOLD FROM MARCH 1994 THROUGH DEC 2003
UPC: 0-50743-00914-3

0920/612237 Little HandiWorker Workhorse
SOLD FROM MARCH 1999 THROUGH JUNE 2009
UPC 0-50743-10920-1
UPC 0-50743-61223-7

4146 Home Improvements 2-Sided Workshop
SOLD FROM FEBRUARY 2001 THROUGH JANUARY 2009
UPC 0-50743-04146-4

440Z Swirlin’ Sawdust Workshop
SOLD FROM APRIL 2004 THROUGH NOVEMBER 2008
UPC 0-50743-38540-7

4028 Black Pickup Truck with Tools
SOLD FROM MARCH 2000 THROUGH APRIL 2009
UPC 0-50743-04028-3

Sold by: Various web sites such as www.littletikes.com and mass merchandise retailers nationwide, including Toys “R” Us, from March 1994 through June 2009 for between $25 and $100.

Manufactured in: United States and China

Remedy: Consumers should immediately take the toy nails away from young children and contact the firm for a free replacement toy nail.

Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Little Tikes at (800) 791-2737 between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. ET Saturday, or visit the firm’s Web site at www.littletikes.com

For more information regarding this article please contact:

Jeffrey Marquart
(949)589-0150
jmarquart@marquartlawgroup.com