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Product Recall Number: 15-160

Why was Children's furniture recalled?

The plastic restraint strap used to attach armoires, combos, dressers and hutches to a wall can break and allow the unit to tip over. Falling furniture can result in a wide range of injuries to young children, from soft tissue bruising to broken bones, head injuries and death by suffocation when a child is pinned under a heavy piece of furniture.

Children's furniture
Here's product recall specific data for Children's furniture.

  • Product Recall Number: 15-160

  • Product Safety Warning Number:

  • Date: 2015-06-09

  • Product Safety Warning Date:

  • Name Of Product: Children's furniture

  • Description: The plastic restraint strap used to attach the furniture to a wall can break and allow the unit to tip over onto a child.

  • Hazard Description: The plastic restraint strap used to attach armoires, combos, dressers and hutches to a wall can break and allow the unit to tip over. Falling furniture can result in a wide range of injuries to young children, from soft tissue bruising to broken bones, head injuries and death by suffocation when a child is pinned under a heavy piece of furniture.

  • Consumer Action: None Listed

  • Original Product Safety Warning Announcement: None Listed

  • Remedy Type: Repair

  • Units: About 18,000 in the U.S. and 2,160 in Canada

  • Incidents: The firm has received one report of a restraint strap on a Wendy Double Dresser breaking and allowing the unit to tip over.  No injuries have been reported.

  • Remedy: Consumers should immediately place the recalled armoires, combos, dressers or hutches out of the reach of young children and contact Pali Design for a free retrofit kit that contains newly designed restraint straps, mounting hardware and installation instructions.

  • Sold At: Independent specialty stores nationwide, at Pequeno Angelito in San Juan, Puerto Rico and online from January 2006 to September 2010 for between $420 and $750. The Karla collection was sold exclusively in Babies R Us stores.

  • Importers: Pali Design Inc., of Canada

  • Manufacturers: Associate Yang Enterprise Co. Ltd., of Vietnam

  • Distributors: None Listed

  • Manufactured In: Vietnam

  • Custom Label: None Listed

  • Custom Field: None Listed

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