Product Recall Number: 16-745
Why was Juvenile dressers recalled?
The recalled dressers are unstable, posing a serious tip-over and entrapment hazard that can result in death or serious injuries to children.
Product Recall Number: 16-745
Product Safety Warning Number:
Date: 2016-05-20
Product Safety Warning Date:
Name Of Product: Juvenile dressers
Description: "The recalled dressers are unstable, posing a serious tip-over and entrapment hazard that can result in death or serious injuries to children."
Hazard Description: The recalled dressers are unstable, posing a serious tip-over and entrapment hazard that can result in death or serious injuries to children.
Consumer Action: None Listed
Original Product Safety Warning Announcement: None Listed
Remedy Type: Repair, Refund
Units: About 26 (in addition, about 250 were sold in Canada)
Incidents: None reported in the United States. Health Canada has received one report of a child in Canada receiving cuts and bruises from a dresser that tipped over without a restraint strap attached.
Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled dressers and place the furniture into areas that children cannot access. Contact Bestar for a free repair kit containing two boards that the consumer can attach to the back of the unit, screws, a metal bracket tip-over restraint, a power drill and drill bit, new feet for the dresser, new installation instructions and warning labels. Bestar is offering free in home installation to any consumer who needs help installing the repair kit. If a consumer is unable or unwilling to install the repair kit, Bestar will pick up the dresser and provide a full refund of the purchase price.
Sold At: "Online at appliancesconnection.com, Cymax.com and Wayfair.com from June 2014 through October 2015 for about $300."
Importers: None Listed
Manufacturers: "Bestar Inc., of Canada"
Distributors: None Listed
Manufactured In: Canada
Custom Label: None Listed
Custom Field: None Listed