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CPSC, Dollar General Corp. Announce Recall of Dive Sticks

Recalled February 16, 2005 · CPSC recall 05112 · Dollar General

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Hazard
Children can fall or land on these upright dive sticks in shallow water and suffer impalement injuries. CPSC banned pre-weighted dive sticks in 2001.
Remedy
Consumers should take these dive sticks away from children immediately and return them to Dollar General stores for a refund, or discard them.
Units
About 180,000 dive stick packages
Incidents / injuries
None reported.

Description

The dive sticks are hard plastic in the shape of worms, fish, and seahorses. The worm dive sticks are sticks with ridges that are green with an orange weighted ball or pink with a yellow weighted ball on the bottom. The fish dive sticks are pink and yellow or green and orange. The seahorse dive sticks are yellow with a blue tail or pink with a yellow tail. All of the dive sticks are about 7 inches long. "Made in China" is written on the fish and seahorses. "Sun and Shade" is written on each package. There are two worms per package and three fish or seahorses per package.

What to do

Consumers should take these dive sticks away from children immediately and return them to Dollar General stores for a refund, or discard them.

Contact

Contact Dollar General at (800) 678-9258 between 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. ET Monday through Friday or visit their Web site at www.dollargeneral.com

Product
Dive Sticks
Distributed by
The Dollar General Corp., of Goodlettsville, Tenn.
Retailers
Dollar General stores nationwide from April 2004 through September 2004 for about $1.
Made in
China

Source: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Official recall notice on cpsc.gov →