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Parents might think or hope that anything made for children would be thoroughly tested before arriving on the shop floor. Sometimes, however, companies fail to spot dangerous parts of their products and children suffer an injury as a result which could lead to parents making a product liability claim on their behalf.
Reports of pushchairs injuring children's fingers are cyclical. News stories die down but then a manufacturer may design something poorly and a huge product recall might follow.
Some parents unlucky enough to have their own child affected by the faulty product may then want to enlist the help of a no win, no fee lawyer to help them pursue compensation for the harm which has been done to their infant.
Pushchair problems
When someone has a child they want the best for them, and as such may buy an expensive pram which they think will be more durable and could last long enough for a second child to use it if they plan to have another baby in the future.
Naturally, when it comes to buying these faulty pushchairs parents are not only disappointed that the pram they might have spent a lot of money on is dangerous, but in some cases that the company who sold it to them offers a repair, but not a refund.
This might be an even worse proposition in the eyes of a parent whose child has just been injured by getting their fingers caught in part of the pram, or in worse cases had the tips off their fingers cut off by a poorly designed folding mechanism.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) noted that in 2002 there were reports of 80 children under six years of age being taken to hospital, because they got their fingers caught in the folding mechanism of their pram. Some of these cases could have led to a product liability claim from parents.
The government decided that collection of this data should cease, so RoSPA have no data on pushchair accidents past 2002, but Consumer Direct, which is funded by the government, received well over 3,000 complaints about pushchairs from January to September 2009.
Children's development
Not only can it be heartbreaking for parents to see their child injured, and a painful, frightening experience for the infant themselves, but up until the age of six children are still learning and improving their motor-skills.
Manufacturers should therefore be especially careful when designing something which is to be used by this inquisitive age group as an injury to the fingers, be it complete amputation or a severe cut, could delay the child's ability to learn important motor-skills while they are healing or inhibit the child for the rest of their lives.
Motor-skills
Learning of motor skills varies in every child but they learn the great majority which they will use and improve on into adulthood by six years of age.
It is important that these years of learning are not disrupted by any serious injury to the hand and fingers.
Past research, which Ellen E. Pastorino, Susann M. Doyle-Portillo write about in their book What is Psychology: The Essentials, has shown that children need time to learn these skills.
If a child loses part of a finger or has a severe hand injury which stops them from learning, then it could make handling objects in the usual way difficult for them in the future; there could be aspects of motor-skills which they always have trouble with from then on as a result.
Do you want to make a product liability claim?
If your child has received a pushchair-related injury and you would like to find an expert no win, no fee lawyer to assist you in making a claim, then YouClaim could help.
We retrieve costs from the other side, so you get to keep 100% compensation should your claim be successful, and our services won't cost you a penny.
Fill out our short online claim form and one of our team will contact you concerning your product liability claim case. Alternatively, have chat online to one of our advisers, or phone us on 0800 10 757 95 to see if you could make a claim today.
