Child Seat Recall 2014 - A company specializing in manufacturing child car seats is under investigation for not reporting that some of its products have safety defects.
According to WoodTV, the National highway Traffic Safety Administration has announced Monday that it is launching an investigation on Graco Children's products - a division of Atlanta-based Newell Rubbermaid Inc. - after it took the company "too long" to report the safety defects of its car seats for kids.
The NHTSA said that the faulty seat could endanger the lives of kids; hence, it decided to impose the child seat recall 2014 by recalling about 6.1 million car seats for kids this year.
This is considered as the largest child seat recall in the history of U.S. as of late.
The decision comes after it was found out that the buckles in the child car seats could get stuck; thus, causing a big problem when the child's life is at risk amid an emergency situation.
"The department is committed to ensuring that parents have peace of mind knowing that the car seat in which they are placing their child and their trust is safe and reliable," U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx told Detroit News.
"Any delays by a manufacturer in meeting their obligations to report safety issues with the urgency they deserve, especially those that impact the well-being of our children, erodes that trust and is absolutely unacceptable," Foxx added.
Grace has already issued a statement regarding the child seat recall 2014 and it claims that they "thoroughly analyzed all data related to the buckles and took the required actions to keep our consumers safe."
Grace also confirmed that it will be cooperating with the on-going investigation.
Moreover, the company insisted that despite the bad image that this child seat recall 2014 could bring to their name, they are confident in saying that no injuries have been documented out of their faulty buckles.
Under federal law, a manufacturer must report a safety defect within five days after discovering that there is a safety defect in its products.
Any company that fails to report this at a timely manner could be asked to pay as much as $35 million in fines.
It isn't clear whether Graco indeed delayed the report on its defective car seats, but NFTSA has already announced that should this be proven true, the company will be held accountable.
"There is no excuse for delaying a recall to address any safety-related defect," said NHTSA Deputy Administrator David Friedman. "If Graco delayed in protecting children and infants from this defect, we will hold them accountable."
The child seat recall 2014 comes about a month after Graco announced that it is recalling about 5 million strollers to fix the design flaw that could amputate a child's fingertip, reports NBC News.
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