June Safety Alerts: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

It’s hard to imagine that there could be any danger in simply brewing a cup of coffee in the morning, while wearing your favorite Chenille Robe, with your adorable pajama-garbed toddler nearby.

But if you are grinding the beans with a Starbucks’ Barista® Blade Grinder or a Seattle’s Best® Coffee Blade Grinder, or brewing the coffee with a Black & Decker® Spacemaker Coffeemaker, you may receive serious lacerations or scaldings, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

And if you are wearing one of Blair’s popular chenille robes, or if your child is wearing loungewear by Warm Biscuit (the name’s irony does not escape us), you may both be highly flammable, and at risk of fatal burns.

This month, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reported six fatal burnings related to the use of Blair Chenille Robes. Likewise, Warm Biscuit children's loungewear falls short of the federal standards requiring children’s sleepwear garments to be snug-fitting or flame resistant.

The Black & Decker Spacemaker Coffeemaker is prone to incidents of overflowing, scalding-hot water, and the coffee grinders’ blades may start spinning on their own.

The companies have each issued product recalls and safety warnings for each of these products, but it is critical that the word gets out, so that consumers do not continue using these defective products.

Additional information about defective products, and how to bring a lawsuit if you have been injured by one, is available from the Walkup Law Office product liability lawyers here.