Sandal and shoe manufacturer Crocs has been repeatedly criticized, lambasted and sued in the last few years over its footwear’s rough-and-tumble relationship with escalators.
The parents of children whose little ones were injured when the flexible foamlike sandals they were wearing got caught and mashed in the sides of the moving staircases have filed more than a dozen lawsuits worldwide against Crocs and received financial settlements from the Niwot-based company.
But this week, Crocs has been at the receiving end of a very different message about the safety of its shoes: A mother claims they saved the life of her 3-year-old boy.
According to media reports, Harley Sutton-Dormer, a British tyke who received a nasty electric shock from a hair dryer he picked up in a swimming pool changing room, was insulated from severe injury by the foam resin Crocs sandals he was wearing at the time.
“A bright blue bolt of electricity went down his arm and shot out his side,” Danielle Sutton-Dormer, Harley’s mother, told the Daily Mail newspaper in London. “It was awful; he was screaming in agony and shaking.”
The incident occurred May 28 at the Belhus Park Leisure Center in Essex, England. The young boy received burns from the dryer but otherwise wasn’t badly injured, the newspaper reported.
