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Creative Playthings Renews Efforts To Replace Indoor Gym House Ladders After California Death

CPSC recall 82008. Recall date: . Last publish date of the CPSC notice: .

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Strangulation

CPSC recall 82008 has the recall date 15 Mar 1982. The notice names the firm Gabriel Industries. The CPSC record gives no number of units. This register puts the recall under the hazard Strangulation. CPSC gives the product type Playground Items.

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CPSC recall 82008: incidents, units, products and firms
UnitsThe CPSC record gives no number
Description
Release # 82-008 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Creative Playthings had renewed its efforts to replace all estimated 137,000 to 239,000 Creative Playthings Indoor Gym House ladders following a recent strangulation death. The product was manufactured prior to 1980 by Creative Playthings, a unit of Gabriel Industries, a division of CBS Inc., New York, N.Y. Consumers are urged to remove and destroy the ladder immediately. The replacement program was conducted in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission which advised the firm of the death of a two-year-old California boy on February 9, 1982, in an accident associated with a Creative Playthings Indoor Gym House. The firm first took corrective action for the product in February, 1980, after learning of an accidental death and an incident causing brain damage which later resulted in death to a child playing with the product. The firm then urged owners of the product to obtain a free replacement ladder because the original ladder posed a strangulation hazard. The Creative Playthings Indoor Gym House consists of a hollow, fiberboard-and-wood box 20 inches in height which supports a two-step wooden ladder on one side and a short…
ProductPlayground Items
ProductCreative Playthings Indoor Gym House
ManufacturerGabriel Industries; CBS

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The recall in context

Units in this recall
not givenMedian of 1982: not given
CPSC recalls of 1982
23
Recalls of 1982 with one of the same hazards
9%
Recalls of 1982 in the category Playground Items
4%
Recalls on the register that name Gabriel Industries
1

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Recall Register. CPSC recall 82008. https://recallregister.com/product/4216-creative-playthings-renews-efforts-to-replace-indoor-gym-house-ladders/. Source: CPSC Recall Retrieval Web Services. Data through .

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US Consumer Product Safety Commission
Licence
US government work, public domain
Data retrieved
30 Sep 2026
Newest CPSC recall on the register
24 Sep 2026

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Questions

Does CPSC recall 82008 report injuries?
The CPSC record of recall 82008 has no incident or injury text.