DIVING Stick Recall
By Jackie Burrell
Thursday, November 20th, 2008 at 2:31 pm in Toy Recalls.
This is weird. Apparently the Consumer Product Safety Commission banned weighted dive sticks back in 2001, saying they were an impalement hazard. And we guess, maybe they are … although they should probably recall the water in the pool too – drowning hazard, you know.
Anyway, despite the ban, a number of companies have sold the things anyway. A hundred or so of these toys were recalled last week. Now, Target just recalled 365,000 of them. So check your pool toys.
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November 20th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
very weird. we buy a different brand of such sticks every summer at Walmart. (hours of fun in the pool) They are yellow w/ different colored ends, and there’s most likely no way anyone could get “impaled” on them, as they are soft/squishy so they can soak in water and eventually sink.
But, I suppose anything can happen with kids. My daughter had to go to urgent care after she got her lip stuck in the hinge of a pair of toy plastic pliers. (and yes, it was as painful as it sounds!)