You picked the sensory swing because it finally worked — the hook in the doorway, the ceiling mount, the five minutes of spinning that brought your kid back down from a meltdown. It became part of the house. So it matters when the thing holding it up is the part that failed.
What’s actually being recalled
Harkla has recalled more than 25,000 of its compression and ceiling-mounted sensory swings in the United States, plus another 5,534 in Canada, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s recall notice, published October 29, 2026. The affected models are the compression swing, sold under item numbers LS-COMP-1BLU and LS-COMP-1BLU-SW, sold from March 2020 through December 2025 for between $100 and $130.
They were sold at Sensory Tool House, Hammer & Jacks, Loaded Sensory, Renew on Faire, Amazon, and Harkla’s own site, harkla.co. If you bought a Harkla swing anywhere in that window, it’s worth five minutes to check the item number against your packing slip or the swing’s tag before you use it again tonight.
Why the CPSC called it a fall hazard
The ceiling hook can separate from its mount under normal use, dropping the swing — and whoever’s in it — to the floor. The CPSC has logged 29 reports of the hook separating and 14 injuries tied to it, including two concussions and one broken arm, along with bumps and bruises.
That’s not a design flaw that shows up in a lab test. It shows up the way most of these things do, mid-afternoon, mid-spin, with nobody expecting it. If your child’s swing has been hanging from the same hook for a year or more, this is the week to actually look at the hardware instead of trusting that it’s held fine so far.
What Harkla is offering, and what it isn’t
Harkla is offering a free repair kit — a replacement ceiling hook — rather than a refund or a replacement swing. You request it directly through Harkla’s own recall page, and the company says it will ship the kit at no cost. There’s no return-and-refund option listed; this is a fix, not a recall in the sense of sending the product back.
If your swing is one of the two affected item numbers, stop using it until the new hook is installed. That’s not overcaution — it’s the specific instruction the CPSC and Harkla are both giving, and it’s an easy one to skip when the swing is the thing that gets your kid through the afternoon.
How to tell if yours is affected
Check the tag sewn into the swing itself for LS-COMP-1BLU or LS-COMP-1BLU-SW — the recall covers those two item numbers specifically, not every Harkla product. If you bought a different style, a platform swing or a cuddle hammock, this recall as written doesn’t name it, though it’s worth a look at Harkla’s own recall page if you’re unsure which model you have.
Keep your receipt or order confirmation if you still have it. You don’t need it to request the repair kit, but it makes the process faster, and it’s useful if a replacement part ever turns out to be back-ordered.
What this is actually asking of you
This isn’t a reason to feel like you got something unsafe on purpose, or like you should have caught it. A hardware failure like this one is on the manufacturer, not on the parent who installed it correctly and used it the way it was meant to be used. You didn’t do anything wrong by trusting a product that passed whatever testing it passed before this.
What it is asking is five minutes this week: check the tag, request the kit if it matches, and let the swing sit unused until the new hook is in. That’s a smaller ask than it feels like at first read.
What to do if the swing has already come down
If the hook has already failed and someone was hurt, the CPSC wants to hear about it — its own incident-reporting site is where real injuries from a recalled product get logged, and it’s part of how the agency tracks whether a repair fix is actually working once it’s out in people’s homes. Harkla separately wants to know if your repair kit doesn’t arrive or doesn’t fit.
This isn’t about swearing off sensory equipment, and it isn’t about feeling like your house is suddenly unsafe. It’s about one hook, on one product, that the company is now replacing for free — and a kid who gets the swing back once that part is handled.