SaferProducts incident

Failure type

Structural / mechanical failure

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20190705-A9DBE-2147380065. Matched catalog product: Graco DuetSoothe Swing and Rocker - Model 1893776. Source model text: 04540-459. Incident: My 16 month old daughter got her upper arm badly stuck between a bar and a corner post in her Graco crib. That is the one slot between bars on the crib where the width of the gap varies from top to bottom. My wife had significant difficulty getting her arm out. My wife was very careful not to further injure my daughter's arm in the process. My wife finally had to push on the bar hard enough to break the crib to free my daughter. My wife called me at work and said that my daughter's upper arm was red and her lower arm looked misshapen compared to the other arm. She took her to the doctor to make sure she didn't have a broken arm. The provider that saw her concluded that she did not have a broken arm. But she said that if my daughter's bones didn't still have so much cartilage in them, then her bone would have likely snapped. No baby should suffer and come this close to a broken arm due to the proper use of a modern crib.