WASHINGTON – The Consumer Product Safety Commission has announced a recall of more than 5,600 U.S.-made wood dining chairs for risk of collapsing and posing a fall hazard. This is now the seventh furniture recall in North America since late June.
The chairs, manufactured by contract furniture supplier Grand Rapids Chair Co. in Michigan, were made to order from January 2020 through June 2024 for between $450 and $1,015. Three models are affected: the woodseat chair (model W520-11), the partial upholstered seat chair (W520-21) and the fully upholstered seat and back (W520-33).
The company has received three reports of the chairs breaking. No injuries have been reported.
Consumers are advised to immediately stop using the chairs and contact the company for a free repair. Company personnel will perform the repair at the consumer’s location.
With this recall, there have now been seven furniture recalls since June. Six took place in the U.S., and one occurred in Canada.
Despite the number of recalls, the American Home Furnishings Alliance does not believe the CPSC is targeting furniture.
“Right now, despite the new stability standard taking effect last September, it does not appear there is any increased scrutiny of furniture by CPSC,” it said in an email to Furniture Today. “At least one of the recalls related to non-compliance with STURDY was the result of an effective in-house testing program that promptly identified a non-compliance issue and removed the affected product from the marketplace so the issue could be corrected.”
Two of the recalls – for Frontgate and Ross Stores – involve outdoor furniture, a category more likely to see recalls over the summer.
“It is not at all uncommon for reports/recalls related to outdoor furniture to increase during the summer months because that’s when consumers are reporting breakage/injuries,” the AHFA said.