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Rejected by U.S., unsafe goods go abroad.(close up)
The tubular metal bunk beds were prone to collapse. Consumers reported at least 150 incidents and several injuries. The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued three recalls, the last in July 2001. The agency warned American consumers to discard or destroy the beds.
Constance Jones, of Philadelphia, and her daughters were among the injured when Kishia, then 12, in the top bunk, fell on Jones and 17-year-old Charon, in the bottom bunk. Charon was hospitalized. "The metal piece broke," Jones says of the incident, which she says occurred in the early 1990s. "It wasn't welded together right."
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