When parents buy children's products including bassinets, car seats, cribs and strollers, they expect the products to have passed stringent safety tests, ensuring the safety of their child.  Unfortunately, manufacturers often scrimp on testing, which results in the availability of products that conceal production or design defects.

Defective Car Seats

Automobile accidents are the biggest cause of death in children below 14 years of age. These fatalities can be reduced by restraining children in car seats that protect them from impact, if an accident were to occur. However, in many cases, car seats have failed, thus offering zero protection to their precious occupants. 

Child car seat failure can be attributed to various defects:

Lack of sufficient padding

In the absence of a properly padded seat, there is no cushioning protecting the child from severe impact in the event of an accident.  

Poorly installed buckles

Buckles play an important role in keeping children properly restrained. When these are installed poorly children can easily unbuckle them and the buckle can snap open in the event of an accident; both scenarios are extremely dangerous.

Defective Chest Clips

A clip made of substandard material can easily snap open in the event of an accident, causing the child to fly out of their seat. 

Defective Harness

A flimsy harness can easily break during an accident, causing the child to fly out of their seat.

Flammable Material

A poorly constructed car seat, made of flammable material, is prone to flames in the event that the vehicle overheats after an accident. 

Defective Playpens

You would hardly expect a child's playpen to be a dangerous place. Yet too often, playpens are found to have unstable collapsible sides, capable of caving in on a child inside the playpen. 

Defective Cribs

Most cribs conform to safety standards, and yet injuries and deaths due to crib defects still occur frequently. Most can be linked to the potential for children to get tapped between vertical slats on the sides of the crib. If these gaps are big enough to trap a child's head, suffocation and strangulation can occur.  Other defects include defective drop sides that collapse unexpectedly, improper design leading to the creation of dangerous gaps and posts on cribs that can pose strangulation hazards.    

Defective Strollers

Strollers have been found to have poorly constructed collapsible frames and improperly installed latches on the frames, causing fall injuries.  Sometimes, stroller parts are defective and can pinch the skin.