About 243 Kmaier infant walkers sold on Target.com are being recalled after regulators found the walker fits through a standard doorway and doesn’t stop at the top of a stair, a defect tied to deadly falls, according to CPSC’s recall notice. The walkers, made by FENUN Inc., doing business as Kmaier, were sold in June 2026 for $62 to $70.
Key Points
- The recalled walkers come in pink, green or white, with a tray, fabric seat, a round six-wheel base and nine adjustable height settings, sold under model number RV001, per CPSC.
- The walker violates the federal mandatory safety standard for infant walkers because it can fit through a standard doorway and fails to stop at the edge of a step, CPSC says.
- That standard exists specifically to keep a mobile walker from rolling a baby through a doorway toward an unguarded staircase, a scenario the federal rule was written to prevent after years of stair-fall injuries tied to older walker designs.
- No incidents or injuries have been reported to date.
- The walker was sold for only one month, June 2026, exclusively through Target.com, making this a narrow but urgent compliance recall.
What Parents Should Do
- Stop using the walker immediately and keep your child away from stairs and doorways while you arrange disposal.
- Email Kmaier at [email protected] to request a refund.
- Follow the company’s required disposal steps: disassemble the walker, cut the fabric seat, mark the tray “Recalled” in permanent marker, photograph the destroyed unit, and email that photo before the refund is issued.
- Do not give the walker to another family, donate it, or sell it secondhand, since a walker that passes federal doorway and stair-edge testing looks the same to the eye as one that fails, so passing it along puts another baby at the same risk. This is not a case where a parent can simply inspect the product and judge it safe on sight.
- If you use any baby walker, place stair gates at the top of every staircase regardless of the model, since walkers as a category move faster than many parents expect.
Infant walkers have been linked for decades to some of the more severe injuries in child product safety, largely because they let a baby who can’t yet walk unassisted move at a speed no adult can always outrun. A federal mandatory standard requires walkers either be too wide to fit through a standard doorway or built to stop automatically at a step edge, and this walker met neither protection, according to the recall notice.
Because the recall covers so few units and moved only through one retailer’s website in a single month, checking your walker’s model number against CPSC’s listing takes just a minute. If you bought an infant walker from Target.com in June 2026, confirm the model number RV001 before letting your child use it near any stairs.
