PARENTING: Strollers recalled after child's fingertip was amputated!
How scary is that?!
We can be known to be overprotective as parents in certain circumstances, but over time you become more trusting when it comes to reputable baby brands.
So when you choose to buy a stroller for your child, very rarely would you think that stroller could cause any harm to your child.
If anything, strollers are the furthest items that you would associate as posing a safety concern.
With all the safety checks and loopholes that baby products have to go through, we take for granted that we as consumers can trust brands to be fully coherent in the safety side of things.
But that's obviously not always the case.
In this instance, it was the All-Terrain RIDGE jogging stroller by UPPAbaby, an American-based baby products company.
Over 14,000 of the brand's strollers were recalled after a child's fingertip was amputated.
The stroller, which costs $600 (R10,380), "has openings in its rear disc brakes that can "cause amputation or laceration if a nonoccupant child's fingertip" gets caught in them, the federal agency said." (Business Insider)
And if there is one thing we all know about kids, it's that they can find anything to fidget with. Absolutely anything.
The company received one report of a child whose fingertip was cut off by the product. They went on to share in a press release that the incident was "likely due to consumer misuse".
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As much as the company had conducted extensive testing to meet industry safety standards, it took one consumer issue for over 14,000 of the strollers to be recalled.
In our opinion, it was a tad bit negligent for them not to have foreseen that something like this could've happened.
After all, how sharp were the disc brakes for them to have cut the child's fingertip? A big lesson for both parents and baby brands.
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