Even More Worries for Thomas

A friend forwarded on some more news coverage of the Thomas Recall from this weekend.  Susan Chandler and Maurice Possely of the Chicago Tribune filed this article.  RC2 is based in Oak Brook, a western suburb in the Chicagoland area.  Nice to see the hometown paper picking up on it.  They also note a complaint from February from Kansas City:

In February 2006, Julianne West, a nurse in Kansas City, paid a visit to a home because a child had tested high for levels of lead. While she was at the home, West and a colleague tested the boy’s toys with a portable lead testing device.
An orange metal toy train car tested positive. “The child had been mouthing it,” West said in the report she filed. “I advised the mother … and told her it would be best to put those toys up. It was one of his favorite toys. He was not happy about it.”

This time it was the “Take Along Thomas” line, which if you are a parent you’ll know as the trains they sell at Target that don’t fit on the wooden tracks.  According to the Tribune, West filed a report with the CPSC and never heard back.  The CPSC is not commenting on any individual incident reports or any open investigations.