Lowe’s Home Centers & Lowe’s HIW (Lowe’s Stores) Recalls 6 Million Roman Shades & 5 Million Roll-Up Blinds Over Potential Strangulation Hazard.
A window shades & blinds recall has been issued by Lowe’s Home Centers, Inc. and Lowe’s HIW, Inc. (“Lowe’s Home Centers” or “Lowe’s stores” or “Lowe’s”) recalling 6 million Roman shades and about 5 million roll-up blinds sold at Lowe’s stores, other retail stores and at www.lowes.com since at least 1999 through June 2010 (Roman shades) and between at least 1999 and January 2005 (roll-up blinds) for between $10 and $1,800 reportedly because strangulations can occur when a child places his or her neck between the exposed inner cord and fabric on the backside of the Roman shade blind or when a child pulls the cord out and wraps it around his or her neck and reportedly because strangulations can occur if the lifting loops slide off the side of the Roll-Up blinds 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, according to a U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) window shade & blind recall news report.
The Lowe’s Store Roman Shades & Roll-Up Blinds recall reportedly includes all styles and sizes of Roman shades and roll-up blinds sold by Lowe’s, except that Roman shades with repair kits and roll-up blinds with release clips right below the head rail on the backside of the blind are reportedly not included.
Consumers are reportedly being asked to stop using the recalled Lowe’s stores Roman shades and roll-up blinds and to contact the Window Covering Safety Council (WCSC) for free repair kits for the recalled Lowe’s stores Roman shades and roll-up blinds at (800) 506-4636 or by visiting their website www.windowcoverings.org.
For more information on the Lowe’s Store Roman Shades & Roll-Up Blinds recall, contact Lowe’s at (800) 445-6937 or visit Lowe’s recall website at:
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