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Flying Gym Playground Swings Repaired by Miracle Recreation Equipment Company

CPSC recall 86038. Recall date: . Last publish date of the CPSC notice: .

CPSC recall 86038 has the recall date 4 Jun 1986. The notice names the firm Miracle Recreation Equipment. The CPSC record gives no number of units. CPSC gives the product type Swing Sets.

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CPSC recall 86038: incidents, units, products and firms
UnitsThe CPSC record gives no number
Description
Flying Gym Playground Swings Repaired by Miracle Recreation Equipment Company NEWS from CPSC U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Office of Information and Public Affairs Washington, DC 20207 FOR RELEASE June 4, 1986 Release # 86-38 Miracle Recreation Equipment Company To Repair "Flying Gym" Playground Swings Washington, D.C. -- In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Miracle Recreation Equipment Company of Grinnell, Iowa, today announced a repair program affecting an estimated 1,475 "Flying Gym" playground swings produced by the firm prior to 1985. A ten-year-old boy in Seattle, Washington died from injuries received after part of a "Flying Gym" swing fell and struck him in December 1984. "Flying Gym" is a playground swing consisting of two swings suspended from a cross beam that rotates about a central metal shaft. The units were sold with a metal "cowboy" or "clown" shroud over the center or with no shroud at all. "Flying Gym" swings subject to this program are models 309 (cowboy), 306 (clown) and 305 (no shroud) and were sold nationally to local park and recreation departments and to some schools and churches. From its sales records, Miracle…
ProductFlying Gym playground swings, Swing Sets
ManufacturerMiracle Recreation Equipment

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The recall in context

Units in this recall
not givenMedian of 1986: not given
CPSC recalls of 1986
46
Recalls of 1986 with one of the same hazards
13%
Recalls of 1986 in the category Swing Sets
2%
Recalls on the register that name Miracle Recreation Equipment
6

Other recalls of the firm

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Recall Register. CPSC recall 86038. https://recallregister.com/product/4645-flying-gym-playground-swings-repaired-by-miracle-recreation-equipment/. Source: CPSC Recall Retrieval Web Services. Data through .

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US Consumer Product Safety Commission
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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 86038 report injuries?
The CPSC record of recall 86038 has no incident or injury text.
How many CPSC recalls name Miracle Recreation Equipment?
6 CPSC recalls on this register name Miracle Recreation Equipment. This recall is 1 of them.