Backyard Discovery treehouses or playhouses

1 report to CPSC, the latest made Apr 10, 2012. A report isn’t a recall.

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1report to CPSC
Apr 10, 2012the latest report was made
Apr 10, 2012the earliest
1with the company’s comments

Brand: Backyard Discovery
Maker: Backyard Discovery aka Adventure PlaysetsMakers, importers or sellers, as the reports name them
Product: Treehouses or playhousesCPSC’s product type: Treehouses or Playhouses (code 1234), in Sports and Recreation: Playground Equipment

By month

1 report from May 2011 to April 2012; the most in April 2012, 1.

The numbers, as a table

Reports to CPSC by the month each was made, newest first
Month	Reports
April 2012	1

How badly anyone was hurt

No one hurt 1 CPSC: Incident, No Injury

As each report says it, in short words; CPSC’s own words are under each.

The reports, as CPSC published them

Reports people made to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC publishes each one after sending it to the company named, and doesn’t guarantee they’re accurate. A report isn’t a recall.

Each report is the words of the person who made it, as CPSC published them. The company’s comments, where CPSC published any, are set apart as the company’s own.

CPSC, SaferProducts.gov public database export. Released Oct 25, 2026. Updated daily.

No one hurt
Made Apr 10, 2012, sent to the company Apr 18, 2012, published by CPSC May 2, 2012

The product, in the report: Atlantis Cedar Playset made by Backyard Discovery The model number for the playset is 65210COM. The manufacturer is actually Leisure Time Products/Backyard Discovery.

We bought the Atlantis Cedar Playset in May 2011. On 3-22-12, the beam mount that attached the swing to the clubhouse broke. This caused the clubhouse to fall, leading to further damage to the clubhouse. There was not a significant storm or any unusual force that should have caused the beam mount to break. I have contacted the company (Backyard Discovery), and they are insisting the damage was caused my mother nature. I feel like there is a real safety concern here that the company is not taking seriously. There was some rain and wind the day that it happened, but no significant storm that should have caused this damage. I have asked nothing from the company other than for them to investigate this safety concern, and have had no response to the safety issue. If my kids had been playing on the playset at the time the beam mount broke, they could have been seriously injured. I feel there is a defect in the quality of this playset, and I don’t want anybody to get injured from the same thing happening to them. I have pictures of the damage if needed.

Model
65210COM
Bought from
Sam’s Club, Michigan
Bought
May 7, 2011, about then
Where
Mason, Michigan: Home/Apartment/Condominium
Who was involved
Unspecified
The reporter’s relation to them
Unspecified
As this report names them
Brand Backyard Discovery, made or sold by Backyard Discovery aka Adventure Playsets
How badly, in CPSC’s words
Incident, No Injury

The company’s comments, in its own words

(4/18/2012) Backyard Discovery aka Adventure Playsets: Swingset Component in Question: This is the cedar board that mounts to the side of the fort section. Two metal brackets attach to this board and the swing beam is sandwiched between them as the beam meets the board perpendicularly. This board serves as the attach board for the swing beam to connect it to the side of the fort. A board of this wood type and dimension is used for this purpose not only on the Atlantis swingset but on most other swingsets we manufacture.
Situation: The customer states that this board simply broke without provocation and for reasons undetermined. She states that because it broke, it then allowed the fort to blow over. The customer states that there was wind that day, but that in her opinion there wasn’t enough wind to cause the damage. No one was apparently swinging on the swingset at the time it broke. No one was injured.
Our Review:
Weather: According to www.weatherunderground.com there was a weather event that caused the sky to go from clear and the wind to go from relative calm throughout the day to heavy rain and a peak wind gust (at the measuring station) of 26 mph around 5:00 pm. It is very possible that local wind gusts associated with this isolated weather cell could have easily exceeded 26 mph. The weather measurements were taken at the Mason, MI airport (KTEW) 3 miles [REDACTED] of the customer’s home. Depending on the position of the swingset in the yard, to the wind (out of 270*), and proximity to buildings that can cause acceleration of the wind beyond its natural speed, it is most likely the set was simply blown over. As the fort was pushed over, the far end of the swingbeam (the part that stands on the ground and is staked into the ground) would have held its position and ultimately, the board in question would have splintered in the fashion seen in the customer photos.
Damage: The customer sent pictures of the set but only after the set had been moved from its fallen location so it was impossible to see its resting place as of the event. The board is broken considerably, splintered apart as it would be if the wind had blown the set over. We have seen many pictures of sets that have been damaged by wind and the damage here is consistent with this type of event. A few other parts of the set were damaged, but it was not at all beyond repair as the customer insists.
Conclusion: Based on the pictures we have and the information the customer gave us, we conclude this set was blown over by the wind causing the swing beam attachment board to splinter. We offered parts replacement to the customer but she insisted that she didn’t want parts, that the set was damaged beyond repair, and that she was certain there was a safety issue associated with this set and all of our sets of this model. We have no data or experiences with this model, or any other model that uses the same swing beam attachment board, that point to a product defect, potential for defect, or potential for injury.

CPSC report 20120410-E028A-2147468531. Submitter: Consumer Search for it on SaferProducts.gov

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Backyard Discovery treehouses or playhouses

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