Federal product-safety regulators have issued an urgent warning about adult portable bed rails, saying that those devices are linked to 18 cases of suffocation deaths since 2021.
In the alert sent out on Thursday, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said Medical King, based in Brooklyn, New York, is recalling about 220,000 adult portable bed rails that could potentially trap users either within the rail or between the rail and the mattress.
The recall concerns three models of Medical King Bed Assist Rail with Adjustable Heights (model numbers 7007 and 7057) and the Bed Assist Rail Without Legs (model number 7037). The affected units were sold online for about $40 on Amazon, eBay, Kohl’s, Target Plus, and Medical King’s website from January 2020 to March 2024….