One Million Pool And In-Ground Spa Drain Covers Recalled; CT Parents Applaud
WASHINGTON (AP / CBSNewYork) -- Eight manufacturers have voluntarily recalled about one million pool and in-ground spa drain covers because of incorrect water flow ratings, and two Connecticut parents are applauding the move.
WCBS 880 Connecticut Bureau Chief Fran Schneidau On The Recall
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The U.S. Product Safety Commission announced the recall Thursday.
LINK: CPSC
The agency says the recalled covers could pose a possible entrapment hazard to swimmers and bathers. They were manufactured between December 2008 and April 2011.
LINK: The Zac Foundation Advancing Water Safety
No injuries have been reported with these products.
The manufacturers are Arizona-based A&A Manufacturing and Color Match Pool Fittings, California-based AquaStar Pool Products Inc. and Waterway Plastic, Georgia-based Custom Molded Products, New Jersey-based Hayward Pool Products, North Carolina-based Pentair Water Pool and Spa and Tennessee-based Rising Dragon USA.
Consumers who have the recalled drain covers should immediately contact the manufacturer to receive a replacement or retrofit.
Recently, a swimming pool company president charged in a Connecticut boy's drowning pleaded guilty to criminally negligent homicide, a misdemeanor.
Karen Cohn, mother of the late 6-year-old Zachary Cohn, and her husband are urging anyone with a pool to look into this drain cover recall.
"We don't have another family to have to endure the loss of a child due to an entrapment," Cohn told WCBS 880 Connecticut Bureau Chief Fran Schneidau.
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