Canyon Furniture Dressers Sold at Rooms To Go Are Recalled Due to Tip-Over Risk

The recalled dressers come in charcoal and chestnut, have five drawers, and were sold between April 2020 and March 2021.

There have been no reported incidents or injuries linked to the recalled products, but the CPSC recommends that consumers stop using them immediately and contact Rooms To Go for a free repair, replacement, or store credit. The company will also pick up the chest free of charge. For additional recall details, see below.

Though the company offers a repair option, which consists of anchoring the product to the wall, safety experts at Consumer Reports say this solution is not adequate because it doesn’t ensure that a wall anchor will be used if the dresser is moved to another location.

“The best option for most recalls—including this one—is for the product to be removed from homes and returned to the manufacturer,” says Gabe Knight, a policy analyst at CR.

This dresser recall is similar to several furniture recalls that have happened over the past two years after stability testing done by Consumer Reports and the CPSC. CR’s evaluations found that many dressers on the market did not pass our basic stability tests, and the CPSC testing found that many products did not comply with the industry’s voluntary stability standard, which is meant to prevent dangerous tip-over incidents. CR has not tested Canyon Furniture dressers, including the model recalled last week.

Every 60 minutes, on average, a child is sent to the emergency department following a furniture tip-over incident, and there have been at least 218 reported child fatalities involving a chest, bureau, or dresser between 2000 and 2019, according to the CPSC.

In an effort to make furniture safer, federal legislation called the Stop Tip-overs of Unstable, Risky Dressers on Youth (STURDY) Act was recently passed in the U.S. House of Representatives with bipartisan support. The bill, which is awaiting a vote in the Senate, would require the CPSC to create a new mandatory rule that includes more stringent stability requirements for dressers, as opposed to the voluntary stability standard that currently exists and that safety advocates say is not strong enough to protect consumers from harm.

Several furniture sellers support STURDY—including Amazon, Room & Board, and Williams-Sonoma, which owns Pottery Barn and West Elm—but Rooms To Go has not responded to CR’s request to publicly endorse the bill. The company also declined to comment on the recall beyond what’s posted on its website.