Week 2 Assignment

Week 2 Assignment

Product Recall

BabyHome: High Chair's Strangulation Hazard

The number of units that were manufactured was 1100 in total. The product is high chairs and it was sold in brown, orange, navy, purple, green, black and red. The model number is BH2104 and is said to be located on the back of the chair. The chair is said to have a nylon fabric and has a plastic tray that is attached via the metal frame. The height of chair is said to be 36 inches and it is 24 inches wide. The high chair is named as baby home on the right hand and eats on the left leg. The product has baby home printed in white with a back word letter h. The chairs are also said to have lot numbers which are said to be located on a small sticker which is present in the footrest. There have been no injuries that have been reported so far and neither have there been any lives taken.

The product is still said to be termed as being dangerous considering the fact that it has the potential to do so. The remedy that has been provided by the consumer product safety division is the fact that the consumers should not use any high chairs and if they have bought it already then they should immediately contact BabyHome USA and then in return acquire a free of charge repair kit for crotch restraint. It is said to be sold at stores that carry juvenile products at a nation-wide level. The retailers which keep these products are online website called Amazon, Diapers.com, Babiesrus.com, RC Willey, Magic Beans and USA Baby. The product has been available at the aforementioned store from the month of March 2012 up till the month of February in 2013 and it was said to be priced at $150. There is one whole importer of the high chair and it is from Chester, New Jersey named as BabyHome USA. The manufacturer of the high chair is located in Spain in Sabadell known as BabyHome SA. Originally it is said to be manufactured in China (www.cpsc.gov).

Negligence Tort

Negligence is said to be the inability to pick something up which in other words can be described as the failure to have an exercise of care under certain circumstances and that particular exercise is exercised by a prudent person under the same circumstances. The aspect of tort which is very much applicable here is negligence which consists of harm that is said to be caused by high degree of carelessness but it cannot be termed as being intentional. The main idea when it comes to Negligence is the fact that individuals should by all means ensure the fact that there should be an exercise of reasonable level of care when the potential harm in the absence of care is foreseeable. It is via the civil litigation that if an individual is said to be injured and is able to prove the fact that ...