{"id":32367,"date":"2009-04-19T13:43:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T13:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/dangerous_magnetic_toy_manufac\/"},"modified":"2024-12-17T16:00:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T21:00:20","slug":"dangerous-magnetic-toy-manufac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/dangerous-magnetic-toy-manufac\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous Magnetic Toy Manufacturer Fined"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have previously written about dangerous toys containing magnets which can be swallowed by small children. Last week, toy manufacturer Mega Brands America Inc. consented to pay a $1.1 million civil penalty for failing to promptly report promptly dangerous magnetic building sets which it manufactured. The sets have been blamed in the death of a child.<\/p>\n

As we reported, tiny magnets can fall out of toys and be swallowed or inhaled by children. If more than one magnet is swallowed, they can attach to each other and cause intestinal perforation, infection or blockage.<\/p>\n

In December 2005 Mega Brands, formerly Rose Art Industries Inc., reported the death of a 22-month-old child to the CPSC. He died when he swallowed magnets from a Magnetix set, which attached to each other in his small intestine and created a fatal blockage.<\/p>\n

Continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have previously written about dangerous toys containing magnets which can be swallowed by small children. Last week, toy manufacturer Mega Brands America Inc. consented to pay a $1.1 million civil penalty for failing to promptly report promptly dangerous magnetic building sets which it manufactured. The sets have been blamed in the death of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-32367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-injury-wrongful-death","tag-personal-injury"],"yoast_head":"\nDangerous Magnetic Toy Manufacturer Fined — Trial Attorney Blog — April 19, 2009<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We have previously written about dangerous toys containing magnets which can be swallowed by small children. Last week, toy manufacturer Mega Brands — April 19, 2009\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/dangerous-magnetic-toy-manufac\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Dangerous Magnetic Toy Manufacturer Fined — Trial Attorney Blog — April 19, 2009\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"We have previously written about dangerous toys containing magnets which can be swallowed by small children. Last week, toy manufacturer Mega Brands — April 19, 2009\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Finch McCranie, LLP\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Dangerous Magnetic Toy Manufacturer Fined — Trial Attorney Blog — April 19, 2009","description":"We have previously written about dangerous toys containing magnets which can be swallowed by small children. Last week, toy manufacturer Mega Brands — April 19, 2009","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/dangerous-magnetic-toy-manufac\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Dangerous Magnetic Toy Manufacturer Fined — Trial Attorney Blog — April 19, 2009","twitter_description":"We have previously written about dangerous toys containing magnets which can be swallowed by small children. Last week, toy manufacturer Mega Brands — April 19, 2009","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Finch McCranie, LLP","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/dangerous-magnetic-toy-manufac\/","url":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/dangerous-magnetic-toy-manufac\/","name":"Dangerous Magnetic Toy Manufacturer Fined — Trial Attorney Blog — April 19, 2009","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2009-04-19T13:43:52+00:00","dateModified":"2024-12-17T21:00:20+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/4c607d19a3fdb947c462210c077ff4a4"},"description":"We have previously written about dangerous toys containing magnets which can be swallowed by small children. Last week, toy manufacturer Mega Brands — April 19, 2009","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/dangerous-magnetic-toy-manufac\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/dangerous-magnetic-toy-manufac\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/dangerous-magnetic-toy-manufac\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Dangerous Magnetic Toy Manufacturer Fined"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/","name":"Trial Attorney Blog","description":"Published by Georgia Trial Lawyers \u2014 Finch McCranie, LLP","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/4c607d19a3fdb947c462210c077ff4a4","name":"Finch McCranie, LLP","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0ac10eb5fe0f322f70ad7a84f6c73584e7381799013c841fb9f2ecf347e28d71?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/0ac10eb5fe0f322f70ad7a84f6c73584e7381799013c841fb9f2ecf347e28d71?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Finch McCranie, LLP"}}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33251,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32367\/revisions\/33251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finchmccranie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}