Window Blinds Recalled Over Strangulation Hazards

The Consumer Product Safety (CPSC), in collaboration with Blind Xpress, announced a recall of close to 139,000 custom-made vertical blinds and 315,000 horizontal blinds that may pose a strangulation hazard to children.

The CSPC said that the product was reportedly responsible for the death of a two-year-old in 2009 who strangled in the loop of a vertical blind cord that was not attached to the wall or floor.

The recall involves not only all Blind Xpress custom-made vertical blinds that lack a cord tensioning device that attaches to the wall or floor, but also to all horizontal blinds that don’t possess inner cord stop devices.

Consumers are asked to stop using the defective products, which were sold at blind specialty stores in Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana from January 1995 to December 2011.

If you or someone you know has been harmed by an unsafe product, contact Sokolove Law today for free legal consultation and to find out if a product liability lawyer may be able to help you.

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