NEWS
from CPSC
U.S. Consumer Product Safety
Commission
Office of Information and Public
Affairs
Washington, DC
20207

FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
September 22,
2006
Release
#06-266

Firm’s Recall Hotline: (800)
509-9554
CPSC Recall Hotline: (800)
638-2772
CPSC Media Contact: (301)
504-7908

Playskool
Voluntarily Recalls Toy Tool Benches after the Death of Two
Toddlers

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In
cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Playskool,
of Pawtucket, R.I., is voluntarily recalling about 255,000 Team Talkin’ Tool
Bench toys following the deaths of two young children.

Playskool received reports that a
19-month-old boy from Martinsburg, W.V., and a 2-year-old boy from League City,
Texas, suffocated when oversized, plastic toy nails sold with the tool bench
toys became forcefully lodged in their throats. Though the toy nails are not
considered a small-part, and the toys are intended for children age 3 and older,
Playskool is voluntarily conducting a recall as a precaution to prevent
additional incidents.

The Team Talkin’
Tool Bench(tm) is a 20-inch tall plastic toy tool bench with an animated red toy
saw, a yellow toy drill and a blue toy vice. The toy talks and makes various
sound effects, including tool sounds. The product also includes a toy hammer,
screwdriver, two 2?-inch plastic screws, two 3-inch plastic nails and
pieces to build a small toy plane. The red Playskool logo is on the front of the
brown surface of the tool bench.

The toy
was sold at Toys R Us, Wal-Mart, Target, KB Toys stores and various other stores
nationwide from October 2005 through September 2006 for about
$35.

Consumers should immediately take
the two toy nails away from children and contact Playskool to get information on
returning the nails for a $50 certificate for a Playskool (or its related
companies’) product.

For additional
information, call Playskool at (800) 509-9554 anytime, or go to their Web site
at www.playskool.com

To see this recall
on CPSC’s web site, including a picture of the recalled product, please go
to: