Posted on Jun 7, 2021
Fisher-Price Ignored Safety Warnings Even After Infants Started Dying, Report Finds
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Executives at Fisher-Price ignored repeated safety warnings about the company's once popular Rock 'n Play sleeper, even after infants began to roll over and die in the now-recalled product, according to a new report.
An investigation by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform alleges that the New York-based children's products giant didn't adequately vet the sleeper for safety before putting it on the market in 2009 and then batted away criticism of the Rock 'n Play for a decade before recalling it in 2019 after more than 50 infants had lost their lives.
"What we found is absolutely shocking," said the committee's chairwoman, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, D-N.Y. "It is a national scandal."
The report was released Monday ahead of a hearing at which Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz and Chuck Scothon, Fisher-Price senior vice president and general manager, testified. (Fisher-Price is a subsidiary of Mattel.)
Executives at Fisher-Price ignored repeated safety warnings about the company's once popular Rock 'n Play sleeper, even after infants began to roll over and die in the now-recalled product, according to a new report.
An investigation by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform alleges that the New York-based children's products giant didn't adequately vet the sleeper for safety before putting it on the market in 2009 and then batted away criticism of the Rock 'n Play for a decade before recalling it in 2019 after more than 50 infants had lost their lives.
"What we found is absolutely shocking," said the committee's chairwoman, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, D-N.Y. "It is a national scandal."
The report was released Monday ahead of a hearing at which Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz and Chuck Scothon, Fisher-Price senior vice president and general manager, testified. (Fisher-Price is a subsidiary of Mattel.)
Fisher-Price Ignored Safety Warnings Even After Infants Started Dying, Report Finds
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel for sure, there are far more quality assurance mistakes than when many companies were founded back in the zenith of "proudly made".
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
"On behalf of myself and everyone at Mattel, I want to convey my deep and sincere condolences to parents and anyone affected by the heartbreaking tragedies we will discuss today," said Kreiz, who joined the company in 2018. "I am a father of four children, and I can only imagine that there cannot be a more terrible loss than that of a child."
"On behalf of myself and everyone at Mattel, I want to convey my deep and sincere condolences to parents and anyone affected by the heartbreaking tragedies we will discuss today," said Kreiz, who joined the company in 2018. "I am a father of four children, and I can only imagine that there cannot be a more terrible loss than that of a child."
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