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Transcript: COMPANIES TO PAY $885,000 FINE FOR NOT REPORTING WEED WIZARD HAZARDS AND INJURIES
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- November 11, 2002
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Three-year-old Alabama Girl Struck and Killed
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
(CPSC)
announced today that U.S. Home and Garden Inc., of San Francisco,
Calif.
and several additional companies have agreed to pay an $885,000 civil
penalty
for failing to inform CPSC of serious safety hazards associated with
Weed
Wizard trimmer attachments. A metal chain link on the weed trimmer
head
can rapidly and unexpectedly fly off a Weed Wizard, striking the user
or
a bystander and penetrating skin and bone. A three-year-old girl was
killed
in Alabama in 1997 by a chain link from a Weed Wizard trimmer.
"Companies that ignore our reporting ...