Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C.

Another popular brand of strollers are being recalled by the manufacturer due to the risk of children’s fingertips being amputated or lacerated, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). Graco Children’s Products Inc., of Atlanta, Ga., is recalling about 1.5 million strollers because the stroller’s canopy hinge mechanism can amputate or lacerate children’s fingertips while the canopy is being opened or closed. To date, Graco has received reports of five fingertip amputations and two fingertip lacerations. The recall involves Graco Passage, Alano, and Spree strollers and travel systems. For a list of Model numbers affected by the recall, visit Beasley Allen Recalls.

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Parents in the New York community of Maverick Park Slope, where the human-to-stroller ratio is about 2 to 1, are in a frenzy about this week’s Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recall of about a million single and double strollers made by Maclaren USA. The strollers are being recalled because of the risk of child fingertip amputation and laceration. At the time of the recall, Maclaren had received 15 reports of children placing their fingers in the stroller’s hinge mechanism, which resulted in 12 reports of fingertip amputations in the United States.

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