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Recall Notice

Date

November 5, 2009

Product Name

Wooden Play Sets by Adventure Playsets

Full Product Description

This recall involves wooden play sets with swings, slides, and ladders, by Adventure Playsets. Each set has an overhead horizontal monkey bar ladder that acts as both a monkey bar and swing beam, and an end ladder coated with plastic that is cranberry or green in colour. The instruction manual has the name "Adventure Playsets", and one of the following model numbers printed on the cover:

• Durango: 1-AP016 and 1-AP018
• Yukon: 1-AP052

Hazard Identified

The plastic coated lumber on the horizontal ladder (monkey bar/swing beam) can weaken over time due to rotting of the whitewood (spruce, pine and fir species), posing a fall hazard to users.

Adventure Playsets is voluntarily recalling these wooden play sets in cooperation with the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (US CPSC) and Health Canada.

In the United States, Adventure Playsets has received more than 1,400 reports of rotting ladders involving 16 injuries that resulted in nine emergency room visits. The injuries include two arm fractures, lacerations, scrapes, and bruises to children younger than 8 years old. Most of the reported injuries occurred when the swing came out of the monkey bar/swing beam that had rotted.

Neither Adventure Playsets nor Health Canada has received any reports of incidents or injuries to Canadians related to the use of these playsets.

Corrective Action

Consumers should immediately stop using the swing sets and contact Adventure Playsets to receive a replacement kit which includes the horizontal ladder and the vertical end truss support pieces.

For more information, consumers may contact Adventure Playsets toll-free at 1-877-840-9068 between 8AM and 5PM CT Monday through Friday, or visit the firm's website, or email the firm at custservice@adventureplaysets.com.

Consumers may view the release by the US CPSC on the Commission's website

Number Sold

Approximately 4,330 of the recalled Durango play sets and 2,413 of the recalled Yukon playsets were sold at Wal-Mart stores across Canada.

Time Period Sold

The recalled playsets were sold from January 2004 to December 2007.

Manufactured in the United States.

Companies

Manufacturer
Adventure Playsets of Amarillo, Texas

Images

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Overhead monkey bar ladder and/or a swing support beam