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 because their plastic zip tie “can become brittle or break,” which would allow a dresser to detach from the wall during a tip-over event. Two months earlier, on February 20, 2025, Ohio-based importer Sauder Woodworking Co. recalled about 15,800 tip-over restraint kits distributed with its dressers, stating that the straps can “fail.”

The two recalls follow the massive January 2024 recall of millions of wall-anchoring kits by New Age Industries for the stated reason that a plastic zip tie “can become brittle or break,” which can allow a dresser to detach from the wall, posing a potentially fatal risk to children. The New Age furniture tip restraint kits were sold and distributed by various furniture companies nationwide, and 31 furniture brands were impacted.

How Do I Know If the Wall-Anchoring Kit for My Canyon Dresser Has Been Recalled?

The defective Canyon restrain kits were distributed from July 2023 through May 2024 with chests and dressers in the Canyon Lake, Canyon River, Cottage Colors, Creekside 2.0, Ivy League 2.0, and Modern Colors furniture lines, and were sold exclusively at Rooms To Go stores and online. Affected chests and dressers have a white label on their back that says “Canyon Furniture Co.” in black text, as well as a model number beginning with “CANY” and the manufacture date.

The kits were packaged in a red plastic bag containing a plastic zip tie, two white plastic brackets, four screws, two white plastic drywall anchors and an instruction sheet. “American Bolt & Screw MFG CO. LTD, ADDRESS: American Bolt & Screw, 600 S WANAMAKER AVE., ONTARIO, CA 91761,” and “MANUFACTURING DATE: JUNE 20, 2023” or “MANUFACTURING DATE: January 20, 2024” are printed on the bag and on the instruction sheet.

How Do I Know If the Wall-Anchoring Kit for My Sauder Dresser Has Been Recalled?

The defective Sauder restraint kits were distributed with dressers and 4-drawer chests manufactured between July 2020 and August 2023 and sold under the Sauder and Sauder Beginnings brands. The date of manufacture can be found on a sticker on the back of the furniture.

The affected chests and dressers were sold at Cook Brothers, Homemakers Furniture Plaza and Menards stores nationwide and online at Amazon, Best Buy, CYMAX, Home Depot, Menards, Sauder, Target, Urban Outfitters, Walmart, Wayfair and other websites from July 2020 through December 2024 for between $200 and $335.

What Should I Do If the Wall-Anchoring Kit for My Canyon or Sauder Dresser Has Been Recalled?

Consumers with Canyon and Sauder dressers should contact American Bolt and Screw or Sauder, respectively, to get a free replacement kit. Both companies instruct that children should be kept away from the furniture until the replacement kit is installed.

How Many Children Are Injured by Dresser Tip-Overs?

From January 2013 through July 2023 there were 79 reported fatalities from dressers, chests and bureaus tipping over, including 64 child fatalities, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The CPSC estimates that there were 3,100 dresser, chest and bureau tip-over-related injuries treated in U.S. hospital emergency departments annually from 2020 through 2022. An estimated 1,800 injuries each year were to children.

Unstable dressers are particularly risky for curious toddlers, as they may open multiple dresser drawers or attempt to climb or sit in a drawer. Unfortunately, young children do not have the strength to prevent a dresser from falling or to lift a dresser that has tipped over onto them. Making an already dangerous situation worse, tip-over accidents often occur when parents think their child is safely asleep in bed, and parents may not hear the dresser fall because the child’s body and carpet often cushion the impact. And for every tip-over that causes injury, there are hundreds of “near misses” where a toddler manages to get out of the way, or a nearby adult catches the dresser, or it falls onto a bed or other nearby object.

Doesn’t the STURDY Act Prevent Dresser Tip-Overs?

The STURDY Act (Stop Tip-Overs of Unstable, Risky Dressers on Youth Act) went into effect on September 1, 2023, and requires that all dressers manufactured and sold in the United States after that date adhere to strict safety rules. Previously, the stability of dressers was governed by nothing more than a voluntary standard created primarily by the furniture industry itself.

However, the STURDY Act is not retroactive, and an untold number of unsafe and unstable dressers remain in use in people’s homes. Properly anchoring these dressers to a wall is critical to preventing tip-over injuries and deaths.

Also, since the STURDY Act went into effect, a number of unsafe and unstable dressers that do not comply with the act’s performance standards have entered the marketplace and have been the subjects of recalls and warnings by the CPSC. As with all product recalls and warnings, there undoubtedly will be dressers that are not returned, disposed of, or repaired, but instead are unaccounted for and continue to put unsuspecting consumers, and particularly children, at risk.

Dressers targeted by the CPSC for noncompliance with the STURDY Act include:

You can check the CPSC public database of product recalls to find out if the dresser in your home has been recalled.

What Should I Do If My Child Has Been Injured By a Dresser Tip-Over?

Feldman Shepherd co-founding partner and product liability attorney Alan M. Feldman said that even prior to the STURDY Act, product liability law always required that products be safe for their intended and expected use. According to Feldman, “it is critical that dressers be designed to be as tip-resistant as possible, because furniture manufacturers know that restraints are often not used by consumers for a number of reasons. And, when restraints are included, it is critical that they be properly designed with top quality materials.” Feldman recommends contacting a product liability attorney as soon as possible if your child has been injured by a dresser tip-over.

With respect to wall-anchoring kits, Feldman noted that parents place their trust in these kits to ensure that the dresser in their child’s bedroom will not tip-over, and they have every right to expect that these kits are made with durable and dependable materials.

Feldman, along with partners Daniel J. Mann and Edward S. Goldis, has recovered nearly $100 million on behalf of four families whose toddlers died from IKEA dresser tip-overs. In another dresser tip-over case, the team recovered what is believed to be the largest recovery for the death of a child in New York.