Graco Fined for Not Reporting Defects

Newell Rubbermaid Inc.’s Graco unit was fined a record $4 million for not promptly reporting hundreds of injuries to children and six deaths involving the company’s highchairs, strollers and other products.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said it had imposed its largest civil penalty ever against Newell, which also failed to promptly report defects posing dangers to children for more than 12 million items from 1991 to 2002.

Pennsylvania-based Graco will recall 1.2 million toddler beds that can trap a child’s limbs between guardrails and footboards sold from February 1994 to March 2001, the agency said.