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Date: November 10, 2010
Company/brand: Hanover Direct Inc. (also known as Domestications, The Company Store, and Company Kids)
The danger:
Roman Shades: Strangulations can occur when a child places his or her neck between the exposed inner cord and the fabric on the backside of the blind or when a child pulls the cord out and wraps it around his or her neck.
Roll-up Blinds: Strangulations can occur if the lifting loops slide off the side of the blind and a child's neck becomes entangled on the free-standing loop or if a child places his or her neck between the lifting loop and the roll-up blind material.
Roller Blinds: Strangulations can occur if the blind's continuous loop bead chain or continuous loop pull cord is not attached to the wall or the floor with the tension device provided and a child's neck becomes entangled in the free-standing loop.
Sold at: Hanover Direct/Domestications, the Company Store/Company Kids; online at domestications.com and thecompanystore.com; and through catalog sales nationwide from January 1996 through October 2009, for between $20 and $579
On November 11, 2010
