Portable Basketball Hoop Recall
In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Huffy Sports Company is recalling approximately 70,000 portable basketball systems.
The basketball hoops can have a sharp protruding bolt on the player's side of the pole that can seriously cut or scrape your skin.
CPSC and Huffy Sports have received 11 reports of such injuries from protruding bolts.
The hoops are portable, vertically mounted Huffy-brand basketball systems that come unassembled with a plastic base that is weighted down by either sand or water that is added during assembly.
The basketball poles are painted black and the Huffy brand name appears on the backboard, main pole, or plastic base.
The protruding bolt on the player side of the pole is located approximately 20-inches from the ground.
Sporting goods, department, and toy stores sold the Huffy-brand portable basketball systems from November 2001 through May 2002 for between $100 and $200.
Consumers should examine their units immediately.
If there is a protruding bolt in the area of play, stop using the hoop immediately and contact Huffy Sports to receive free bolt covers.
Consumers can reach the company at (800) 558-5234 between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. CST Monday through Friday.
Click here to read the full recall report and to see photos of the recalled hoop.
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