Child’s Entrapment Death Prompts Big Lots Recall of Metal Futon Bunk Beds

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–June 16, 2011.  In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Big Lots, of Columbus, Ohio, is voluntarily recalling about 30,000 metal futon bunk beds.

Children behind the futon or in the ladder area of the bunk bed can get entrapped when the futon and its metal frame are lowered from the seated to the flat position. This is what happened to a three-year old Burlington, Iowa boy who died when he…