Product Recall: Jet Streamers(tm) Water Blasters Pool Toys
Filed under: Health and Safety, Toys
Wild Planet Toys Inc., of San Francisco, California, in cooperation with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, is voluntarily recalling their Jet Streamers(tm) Water Blasters Pool Toys. When partially filled with water, the pool toy can stand upright on the pool floor with the rigid narrow end pointed upward. In this position, the toys could impale children playing in or jumping into the water. Wild Planet has received one report of an impalement injury to an 8-year-old girl who landed on a Jet Streamer left in a swimming pool and received a puncture wound.The Jet Streamers(tm) Outdoor Antics! Pump-Action Water Blasters are straight squirt guns for the pool. The Jet Streamers measure 9-inches long with a bulbous water reservoir at one end and a rigid tapering handle at the other end. The tapering handle is gray while the water reservoir is either white/green, blue/yellow or orange/silver. Tiny raised lettering on the Jet Streamers' handles state, "(c)2002 Wild Planet Toys, San Francisco, CA, USA, Made in China." The toys were sold as a 2-pack set, in packages with other pool toys, such as dive balls and magnet dive gloves, and with boys' swim trunks.
The toys were sold at Target, Kohl's, internet retailers, discount department stores and toy stores nationwide from February 2003 through August 2006 for between $6 and $13 a set. If you have some of these, stop using them immediately and remove them from the pool area. Contact Wild Planet for a replacement with an angled handle that prevents it from standing upright. For more information, contact Wild Planet Toys at (800) 247-6570 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. PT Monday through Friday, e-mail the company at help@wildplanet.com, or visit the firm's Web site.Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments