Adult Portable Bed Rail Recall Issued Following Death of 66-Year-Old Man at Residential Care Facility
More than 200,000 Medical King bed rails are being recalled, due to dangerous designs that may cause entrapment and suffocation risks.
More than 200,000 Medical King bed rails are being recalled, due to dangerous designs that may cause entrapment and suffocation risks.
CPSC established new safety standards for portable bed rails last year, following 300 deaths linked to dangerous and defective designs
Reports have identified hundreds of entrapment deaths involving adult portable bed rails in the last two decades, indicate U.S. regulators.
This is the latest in a series of portable bed rails which have been recalled in recent years over the risk of entrapment, suffocation and death.
The CPSC has issued a number of warnings and recalls over entrapment and suffocation risks linked to portable bed rails in recent years.
Design allows sleepers to become trapped between the rail and the mattress, CPSC warns