Marriott once again disregards the CPSC

According to NBC's The Today Show the Marriott corporation has failed to 100% comply with and install the Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC) mandated pool drain cover recall program. This is not the first time the Marriott Corporation has snubbed their noses at the CPSC. Here is information regarding a previous encounter.

NEWS from CPSC

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Office of Information and Public Affairs Washington, DC 20207


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 27, 1981
Release # 81-004

Commission Announces Settlement Of Civil Penalty Action Involving Amusement Rides

WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 27, 1981) -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Marriott Corporation today announced that a civil penalty action against Marriott has been settled in the amount of $70,000. The action involved the company's alleged failure to report to CPSC accidents and other information about Marriott amusement rides which indicated possible product hazards at Marriott's Great America amusement parks in Santa Clara, California and Gurnee, Illinois.

The settlement, which relates solely to CPSC charges that Marriott failed to meet these reporting requirements, concludes one of the first civil penalty actions brought against an owner of amusement park rides for failure to report possible product hazards.

Last August, after modifications made by Marriott to the "Willard's Whizzer" ride at the Great America park in Santa Clara (near San Jose) where an accident occurred on March 29, 1980, the CPSC staff inspected the ride and identified no safety defects. The same modifications were made on the "Willard's Whizzer" ride at the Great America Park in Gurnee (near Chicago).
As part of the settlement, Marriott agreed to begin making regular reports to CPSC during the next two years regarding the safety of amusement rides the company owns or operates. Marriott also agreed to withdraw a lawsuit it has brought in U.S. District Court in San Francisco which alleges that the Commission does not have any jurisdiction over amusement park rides.
The company took these actions without conceding to the jurisdiction of CPSC or to any violation involving the reporting requirements under the Consumer Product Safety Act.

The law permits the Commission to seek civil penalties of as much as $500,000 from a company which fails to report promptly to CPSC a defect which could create a substantial product hazard.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission protects the public from unreasonable risk of injury or death from 15,000 types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. To report a dangerous product or a product-related injury and for information on CPSC's fax-on-demand service, call CPSC's hotline at (800) 638-2772 or CPSC's teletypewriter at (800) 638-8270. To order a press release through fax-on-demand, call (301) 504-0051 from the handset of your fax machine and enter the release number. Consumers can obtain this release and recall information or report product hazards to info@cpsc.gov.



Come on Marriott close the pools immediately and fix the drain covers.


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