Fall Risk Prompts Recall of Infant Carriers
By Emily Mapp Brannon, Carolina Brain Injury Attorney
In his latest post to our firm’s Carolina personal injury lawyers’ website, my colleague John Cooper reports that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has joined with UK-based baby products maker Lifemarque to recall LittleLife Discoverer Child Carriers. The carriers designed to be worn on parents’ back can fail, dropping the infant in the carrier to the ground and putting the child at risk for head, neck, spine and brain injuries. To read more, click over to “Infant Carriers Recalled Over Fall Risks.”
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