The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has announced recalls of more than 15,000 dressers from six brands because they are “unstable” when not wall-anchored and pose tip-over and entrapment hazards that could result in serious injuries or death to children. Five of the recalls, announced on February 5, 2026, involve YITA, Enhomee, Fixwal, Shintenchi [...]
Nearly 29,000 wall-anchoring kits sold with dressers manufactured by Canyon Furniture Dressers and Sauder Woodworking Co. have been recalled by two separate companies because a defective part may render them defective. On April 17, 2025, California-based importer American Bolt and Screw recalled about 12,890 tip-over restraint kits distributed with dressers manufactured by Canyon Furniture Dressers [...]
For the second time in less than two months, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has announced the recall of a line of Rooms To Go dressers that do not comply with the performance standards of the STURDY Act and accordingly pose a tip-over risk to young children. This is the second STURDY Act [...]
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has announced the recall of a line of children’s dressers sold by Rooms To Go, marking the first recall under the STURDY Act (Stop Tip-Overs of Unstable, Risky Dressers on Youth Act) since the act took effect in September 2023. The recall involves 200 six-drawer Mill Valley Jr. [...]
Tip-overs of chests, bureaus and dressers sent an estimated 1,800 children to hospital emergency rooms each year from 2020 through 2022, according to a newly released report by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The “Product Instability or Tip-Over Injuries and Fatalities Associated with Televisions, Furniture, and Appliances: 2023 Report” also found that there were [...]
Millions of wall-anchoring kits designed to prevent dresser tip-overs have been recalled by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) because a defective part may render them ineffective. On January 11, 2024, the CPSC recalled the kits, made by New Age Industries, because a plastic zip tie “can become brittle or break,” which can allow a [...]
Congratulations to Our Dresser Tip-Over Clients on Achieving a Major Milestone in the Fight to Keep Children Safe in Their Bedrooms Several former Feldman Shepherd clients whose children died from IKEA dresser tip-overs — along with other child safety advocates — have achieved a major milestone in their fight to protect kids from dressers that [...]
Congratulations to Our Dresser Tip-Over Clients Who Won the Fight to Keep Children Safe in Their Bedrooms In the waning days of 2022, as the end was nearing for the 117th Congress, a group of determined parents who fought tirelessly for nearly two decades to protect children from serious injury and death from dresser tip-overs [...]
STURDY Act Awaits Final Vote by U.S. House In a hard-earned victory for child safety advocates, a new mandatory federal safety standard that will save young children from injuries and deaths associated with dresser tip-overs was published in the Federal Register on November 25, 2022. The Safety Standard for Clothing Storage Units was approved in [...]
As the U.S. Senate’s failure to act on legislation that would help prevent dresser tip-overs reaches the 17-month mark, another 5,400 dangerous dressers have been recalled. On July 7, 2022, Samson International issued a joint recall with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) for its Universal Broadmoore Cayden Gentleman’s 9-Drawer Chests, stating that the chests [...]
