Six Manufacturers Halt Sale Of Baby Gates
CPSC recall 85006. Recall date: . Last publish date of the CPSC notice: .
Hazard, in the words of CPSC
Strangulation
CPSC recall 85006 has the recall date 24 Jan 1984. The notice names the firm Nu-Line. The CPSC record gives no number of units. This register puts the recall under the hazard Strangulation. CPSC gives the product type Corral Enclosures.
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| Units | The CPSC record gives no number |
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| Description | Six Manufacturers Halt Sale Of Baby Gates Commission Announces Agreement with six manufacturers of V-shaped accordion style baby gates to halt voluntarily further production and distribution. The Commission staff believes these gates present a strangulation hazard in the V-shapes along the top edge of the gate and in the diamond-shaped openings in the body of the gate. These gates are commonly used to block entry of infants and children to stairs and other rooms in a home. This action was taken by the Commission after an eighth death involving an accordion style gate occurred in Meridian, Idaho, in October, 1984. In that incident, an 11-month old infant died from strangulation when his head became entrapped in a diamond-shaped opening in the body of an accordion style gate. Since 1975, the Commission is aware of seven additional deaths when children's heads became entrapped either in the V-shaped openings along the top edge or in the diamond-shaped opening of the accordion style gates. There have been at least another 23 non-fatal incidents associated with these gates. The firms that agreed to stop producing and distributing the accordion style gates are Madison Mill Inc.,… |
| Product | Madison Mill V-shaped accordion style baby gates, Corral Enclosures |
| Product | Mapes Industries V-shaped accordion style baby gates |
| Product | North States Industries V-shaped accordion style baby gates |
| Product | Nu-Line Industries V-shaped accordion style baby gates |
| Product | Paris Industries V-shaped accordion style baby gates |
| Product | Worldbest Industries V-shaped accordion style baby gates |
| Manufacturer | Nu-Line; Worldsbest Industries; Mapes Industries; North States; Paris |
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- Hazard: Strangulation
- Category: Corral Enclosures
- CPSC recalls of 1984
The recall in context
- Units in this recall
- not givenMedian of 1984: not given
- CPSC recalls of 1984
- 44
- Recalls of 1984 with one of the same hazards
- 5%
- Recalls of 1984 in the category Corral Enclosures
- 2%
- Recalls on the register that name Nu-Line
- 1
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Recall Register. CPSC recall 85006. https://recallregister.com/product/4497-six-manufacturers-halt-sale-of-baby-gates/. Source: CPSC Recall Retrieval Web Services. Data through .
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- Data retrieved
- 30 Sep 2026
- Newest CPSC recall on the register
- 24 Sep 2026
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Questions
- Does CPSC recall 85006 report injuries?
- The CPSC record of recall 85006 has no incident or injury text.