Recall Check: Almost 40K Angel Line Bunk Beds Recalled Over Strangulation Hazard After 2-Year-Old’s Death

Angel Line Bunk Beds Overview:

• Who: Longwood Forest has recalled 39,900 Angel Line Bunk Beds with angled ladders.
• What: The company has recalled the bunk beds due to serious risks of entrapment and strangulation that left a 2-year-old Ohio boy dead.
• Where: The recall is nationwide.

Longwood Forest has recalled 39,900 Angel Line Bunk Beds with angled ladders due to serious entrapment and strangulation hazards that left a 2-year-old boy from Ohio dead.

The company says in the recall notice that the metal hook fastening the ladder to the top bunk bed frame can move away or detach from the bed frame when the ladder is lifted, causing the gap between the ladder step and bed frame to open wider than 3.5 inches.

The boy, from Columbus, Ohio, was found unresponsive in the gap in the bunk bed ladder in May 2018.

The three models of Angel Line Bunk Beds included in this recall are:

• Fremont Twin over Twin Bunk Bed, model numbers 71210-21, 71210-49 and 71210-67
• Creston Twin over twin Bunk Bed, model numbers 71230-21, 71230-49 and 71230-75
• Brandon Twin over Full Bunk Bed, model numbers 71420-21 and 71420-75

The model number is printed on a label on the headboard/footboard of the upper bunk.

Consumers Should Stop Using The Beds, Call For Free Repair Kit

The company is urging consumers to stop using the bunk beds to prevent another death, and is urging caregivers to block children’s access to the bunk beds and contact Angel Line for a free repair kit with brackets to reinforce the angled bunk bed ladders. 

“Consumers should not use the recalled bunk beds until the repair kit has been installed,” the company said. 

The bunk beds, which were made in Vietnam and imported by Longwood Forest Products of Pennsville, New Jersey, were sold online at www.amazon.com, www.ojcommerce.com, www.walmart.com and www.wayfair.com from March 2016 through June 2021 for between $180 to $330.

In 2020, furniture maker Zinus had to recall about 26,000 metal bunk beds after receiving several reports of the bunk beds collapsing. According to a U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission notice, the company has received 13 reports of welds coming apart on the bunk beds. Three of the 13 reported incidents resulted in minor injuries, such as bruising, after the consumer fell from the top bunk to the floor when the welds gave way.

Let us know in the comments section if you own one of the recalled bunk beds! Have you had problems with them?

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