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Product Recall Number: 12-144

Why was Folding Chairs recalled?

The chairs can collapse during normal use, posing a fall hazard to consumers.

Folding Chairs
Here's product recall specific data for Folding Chairs.

  • Product Recall Number: 12-144

  • Product Safety Warning Number:

  • Date: 2012-04-04

  • Product Safety Warning Date:

  • Name Of Product: Folding Chairs

  • Description: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.

  • Hazard Description: The chairs can collapse during normal use, posing a fall hazard to consumers.

  • Consumer Action: None Listed

  • Original Product Safety Warning Announcement: None Listed

  • Remedy Type: Refund

  • Units: About 10,000 in the United States and 100 in Canada

  • Incidents: West Elm has received 14 reports of collapsed, broken or cracked chairs. Two consumers have reported minor injuries after falling from a collapsed chair, medical attention was not required.

  • Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled chairs and contact West Elm for instructions on returning the product for a full refund.

  • Sold At: West Elm stores nationwide, the West Elm catalog and website from September 2011 to January 2012 for between $20 and $40.

  • Importers: West Elm, a division of Williams-Sonoma Inc., of San Francisco, Calif.

  • Manufacturers: None Listed

  • Distributors: None Listed

  • Manufactured In: Malaysia

  • Custom Label: None Listed

  • Custom Field: None Listed