Playground Items: CPSC recalls in this category

13 CPSC recalls are in the product category Playground Items. That is 0.1% of the 10,027 CPSC recalls on the register. The notices give about 17,041 units for these recalls. The median recall has 540 units.

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Federal law prohibits any person from selling products subject to a Commission ordered recall or a voluntary recall undertaken in consultation with the CPSC.
CPSC publishes these words. Source: CPSC recall notices, section About the U.S. CPSC, read on 1 Oct 2026. The hazard, the remedy and the incident text on this site are the words of the CPSC recall notice. Newest CPSC recall on the register: 24 Sep 2026.

Newest recalls

The newest 13 of 13.

Newest CPSC recalls in the category Playground Items
Date	Recall	Firm	Hazard	Units	CPSC number
22 Apr 2009	SportsPlay Equipment Recalls Playgrounds Due to Violation of Lead Paint Ban	Floteks	Lead or chemical, Poisoning, Violation of standard	540	09737
12 Jun 2008	Children's Merry-Go-Rounds Sold Exclusively at Toys R Us Recalled by Pacific Cycle Due to Fall Hazard	Pacific Cycle	Fall	15,000	08305
20 Feb 2003	CPSC, Playnation Play Systems Announce Recall of "Fun Buckets" on Backyard Play Sets	Playnation Play Systems	Strangulation	1,400	03084
20 Aug 2002	CPSC, BCI Burke Announce Recall of Buckle Bridges on Series 2000 Playgrounds	BCI Burke		46	02554
26 Oct 2000	CPSC, Playworld Systems Announce Recall of Playground Slides	Playworld Systems	Amputation	55	01501
1 Sep 1993	Miracle Recreation Offers Deck Covering To Prevent Burns On Bare Metal Playground Decks	Miracle Recreation Equipment	Burn		93106
26 Jan 1993	Miracle Recreation Equipment Company Retrofits Tornado Spiral Slides To Prevent Strangulation		Strangulation		93038
20 Jan 1987	Timberform 4000 Playground Equipment Repaired by Columbia Cascade	TimberForm	Entrapment		87004
5 Dec 1983	Playground Equipments Repaired by Pixieland	Pixieland	Entrapment		83062
26 May 1983	Slide Ladders Recalled by Carolina Enterprises	Toys R Us	Entrapment		83030
26 Jan 1983	Play Gyms Repaired by American Toy & Furniture and Sears	Sears	Entrapment		83003
15 Mar 1982	Creative Playthings Renews Efforts To Replace Indoor Gym House Ladders After California Death	Gabriel Industries	Strangulation		82008
23 May 1980	Gym Sets Recalled by Creative Playthings		Strangulation		80020

Hazard: The way a product can cause harm, in the words of the CPSC recall notice. This site also puts each recall under short hazard names.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Hazards

Playground Items: recalls that name each hazard
Hazard		Recalls
Entrapment		4
Strangulation		4
Amputation		1
Burn		1
Fall		1
Lead or chemical		1
Other		1
Poisoning		1
Violation of standard		1

Firms

Firms with a page, in the order of the number of recalls.

Recalls by year

CPSC recalls in the category Playground Items, by the year of the recall date. The largest year is 2000, with 1 recall.

Units in these recalls: 17,041
Median units of one recall: 540All CPSC recalls: 8,800
Share of all CPSC recalls on the register: 0.1%

Official channels

CPSC recallsThe list of all recall notices on the CPSC site.
SaferProducts.govThe CPSC site for a report about a consumer product.

Cite this page

Recall Register. Playground Items: CPSC recalls in this category. https://recallregister.com/category/playground-items/. Source: CPSC Recall Retrieval Web Services. Data through 29 Sep 2026.

Sources

Source: US Consumer Product Safety Commission
Licence: US government work, public domain
Data retrieved: 29 Sep 2026

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Questions

Which hazards do the recalls in the category Playground Items have?: Entrapment: 4 recalls. Strangulation: 4 recalls. Amputation: 1 recall.
What is the newest CPSC recall in the category Playground Items?: CPSC recall 09737, with the recall date 22 Apr 2009. The CPSC title is: SportsPlay Equipment Recalls Playgrounds Due to Violation of Lead Paint Ban
Which firms have a page and a recall in the category Playground Items?: 6 firms on this page. The list is in the order of the number of recalls and starts with BCI Burke, with 1.
Where does the category Playground Items come from?: Playground Items is a product type of CPSC. This site uses the type of the first product of a recall. Most records before 2010 have no product type.