Nearly 1 million Easy Bake Ovens recalled because kids are getting their hands stuck in them and burned.

From the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission:

Easy-Bake Ovens Recalled for Repair Due to Entrapment and Burn Hazards

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should immediately take the recalled oven away from children under 8 years of age and contact the firm for a retrofit with warning.

Name of product: Easy-Bake Ovens

Units: About 985,000

Manufacturer: Easy-Bake, a division of Hasbro, Inc., of Pawtucket, R.I.

Hazard: Young children can insert their hands into the oven’s opening and get their hands or fingers caught, posing an entrapment and burn hazard.

Incidents/Injuries: Easy-Bake has received 29 reports of children getting their hands or fingers caught in the oven’s opening, including five reports of burns.

Description: The Easy-Bake Oven is a purple and pink plastic oven that resembles a kitchen range with four burners on top and a front-loading oven. “Easy Bake” is printed on the front of the oven. Model number 65805 and “Hasbro” are stamped into the plastic on the back of the oven. The Easy Bake Oven is an electric toy and is not recommended for children under eight years of age. Ovens sold before May 2006 are not included in this recall.

Sold at: Toys R Us, Wal-Mart, Target, KB Toys and other retailers nationwide from May 2006 through February 2007 for about $25.

Manufactured in: China

Remedy: Consumers should contact Easy-Bake between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. ET 7 days a week to receive a free retrofit kit with consumer warning. Caregivers should keep the Easy Bake Oven away from children under eight years of age.

Consumer Contact: For additional information, contact Easy-Bake at (800) 601-8418, or visit the firm’s Web site at www.easybake.com

Posted

February 6, 2007

From PlainJaneMom.com

Erika Jurney

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5 responses to “Nearly 1 million Easy Bake Ovens recalled because kids are getting their hands stuck in them and burned.”

Karly

February 6, 2007

Since when does an Easy Bake Oven have a stove top??

And, don’t tell anyone, but I actually got one of these as a birthday gift from my husband one year. Because I asked for it. Because I love Easy Bake Ovens.

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Bon

February 6, 2007

mine didn’t have a stovetop, Carly. of course, mine also didn’t trap my hands and burn me at will…

ah, change. ;)

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carmachu

February 6, 2007

Sarah’s didnt have a stove top either. But she didnt like it that much, you couldnt watch it…

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Plain Jane Mom

February 6, 2007

That stovetop is quite fancy — when I was a kid I coveted these, but sadly never had one… I did have a Holly Hobby sewing machine, though!

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Trina at International Labor Rights Fund

February 7, 2007

And even worse is the misery that comes from the creation of the Easy Bake ovens themselves. We have the opportunity in the US to buy Easy Bake ovens for relatively cheap while at the same time Wal-Mart has made sure to cut every possible corner including product quality (which in turn affects consumer safety) in order to delver us a lower priced product. What makes me sick is to think about the young women in China that probably worked 7 days a week 12-14 hours a day in miserable conditions for very low pay to produce the Easy Bake ovens. Seems that everyone along the product chain gets hurt… except for of course the 2nd largest corporation in the world Wal-Mart that continues to bring in large profits while harming consumers and workers around the world! I think this is a damn shame.

For more information about Wal-Mart’s miserable factory working conditions, go to http://www.LaborRights.org.

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