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CPSC, Swing-N-Slide® Corp. Announce Recall of Extra-Duty and Heavy-Duty Swing Seats

Kids’ product recall 05-071. Announced by CPSC on Dec 16, 2004.

CPSC’s own notice

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The short answer

Announced by CPSC on Dec 16, 2004. Copied from CPSC on Oct 19, 2026.

72,000 units, as CPSC gives them
None injuries, CPSC’s notice says

Every line below is in CPSC’s own words, with its source beside it.

What’s wrong with it?

A manufacturing defect can cause the metal grommet securing the seat to break. If this happens, the user can fall to the ground.

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

What should you do?

Consumers should take down the extra-duty and heavy-duty seats and contact Swing-N-Slide® for information on how to return the swing for a replacement. The company will send consumers a postage-paid package to return the product.

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

How to reach the firm: Consumers should contact Swing-N-Slide® toll-free at (800) 888-1232 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. CT Monday through Friday, or visit the firm’s website at www.swing-n-slide.com. Consumers may also write to Extra/Heavy-Duty Swing Seat Recall, Swing-N-Slide®, 1212 Barberry Drive, Janesville, Wis. 53545.

Which ones are recalled?

Included in this recall are extra-duty and heavy-duty plastic Swing-N-Slide® swing seats. Sold in either green (extra-duty) or yellow (heavy-duty), the seats are suspended from a crossbeam by two plastic-coated metal chains. On the bottom of each seat, in raised lettering, are the words, “Swing-N-Slide® Corp., 1212 Barberry Drive, Janesville, WI 53545, (800) 888-1232.”

72,000 units, as CPSC gives them.

Extra-Duty and Heavy-Duty Swing Seats.

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

CPSC’s photos

CPSC shows 1 photo on its notice. Hearth Record doesn’t copy them; each opens on cpsc.gov.

Recalled Extra-Duty and Heavy-Duty Swing-N-Slide® swing seats

Who made and sold it?

Made by Swing-N-Slide® Corp., Janesville, Wis.
Home Depot, Lowe’s, Ace, DIBC, TruServ, Handy Hardware and Emery-Waterhouse stores nationwide from January 2004 through June 2004 for about $30.
Made in China, as the notice gives it.

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

Was anyone hurt?

Swing-N-Slide® has received five reports of the swing’s seat breaking. No injuries have been reported.

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

What the record doesn’t say

The notice lists no UPCs, so check the model, the description and the photos.
The notice lists no model numbers in a field of their own; its description may give them.
How many have been returned or fixed isn’t in the notice.

Hearth Record wrote these lines.

Sources

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Recalls API.

Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain (U.S. Government work). CPSC asks to be credited, and that no endorsement be implied.

Recalls of kids’ and home products are from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). CPSC does not endorse Hearth Record. Copied on Oct 19, 2026.