Walker Edison Recalls 24,000 Dressers Due to Tip-Over Risk

The recall comes after a spate of dresser recalls over the past several months, and as the U.S. Senate is considering legislation, already passed by the House of Representatives, called the Stop Tip-overs of Unstable, Risky Dressers on Youth (STURDY) Act.

The act would require the CPSC to create a new rule that includes more stringent stability requirements and is mandatory, as opposed to the voluntary stability standard, which safety advocates believe is not strong enough to protect consumers from harm.

Currently, one person is injured about every 20 minutes—and one child dies about every two weeks—when a piece of furniture, an appliance, or a television falls onto them, according to the CPSC. Each year, thousands of those incidents involve dressers.

In September 2020, acting CPSC chairman Robert Adler and CPSC commissioner Elliot Kaye issued a joint statement calling on industry to do more to prevent tip-overs.

“These tragedies are preventable through design change of the product,” they wrote. But until regulations make those design changes law, Adler and Kaye urged companies to recall unstable dressers and “offer full and fast refunds to consumers who do not want to live with furniture that could tip over and harm children.”

Today’s recall gives consumers that option, and CR’s safety experts urge consumers to take advantage of it immediately and stop using the dressers.