The kids’s Pillowfort weighted blanket is proven in unicorn pink. The merchandise and its variations is being recalled at Target shops after two women died from asphyxiation after turning into trapped underneath one.
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commssion
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commssion
The kids’s Pillowfort weighted blanket is proven in unicorn pink. The merchandise and its variations is being recalled at Target shops after two women died from asphyxiation after turning into trapped underneath one.
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commssion
More than 200,000 weighted blankets are being recalled by the Target division chain after stories of two younger women suffocating beneath one, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission stated Thursday.
Two women, ages 4 and 6, reportedly died from asphyxiation after unzipping and crawling inside the youngsters’s Pillowfort weighted blankets at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina in April, the company stated.
Altogether, Target, the place the blankets had been solely offered, has obtained 4 stories of kids being trapped in them. The recall impacts about 204,000 of the blankets.
“CPSC and Target are urging shoppers to cease utilizing the recalled weighted blankets instantly and call Target for a refund,” the federal company stated in a press release.
The blankets weigh 6 kilos and are available eight colour and sample choices, together with unicorn white, house navy, pink, blue, grey, buffalo plaid purple, blue constellation, and unicorn pink. They had been being offered for $40 between December 2018 to September 2022.
To enquire concerning the refund course of, click on right here for extra info. Target can be contacting affected shoppers straight, the CPSC stated.