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CPSC and CESSO, LLC Announce Recall of Tree Stand Components

Home product recall 04-137. Announced by CPSC on May 18, 2004.

CPSC’s own notice, on cpsc.gov

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Announced by CPSC on May 18, 2004. Copied from CPSC on Oct 19, 2026.

Every line below is in CPSC’s own words, with its source beside it.

What’s wrong with it?

If the “Tree Lounge” is subjected to significant impact from a heavy load, a tube on the leveler can crack. If the leveler is installed beneath the “Tree Lounge,” the bolts attaching the leveler to the “Tree Lounge” can bend or begin to pull through the leveler. In either of these circumstances, users can lose their balance and possibly fall.

Source:

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

What should you do?

Consumers should return their levelers to the firm for a free repair.

Source:

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

  • How to reach the firm: Call CESSO, LLC at (800) 808-1541 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday.

Which ones are recalled?

Levelers are designed for use with the “Tree Lounge” tree stand. The levelers are powder-coated green, with a T handle screw that spreads or contracts the two tubes of the leveler as necessary, in order to level the “Tree Lounge” as the diameter of the tree changes during ascent or descent.

15,000 units, as CPSC gives them.

Tree Lounge Tree Stand Levelers.

Source:

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

CPSC’s photos

CPSC shows 2 photos on its notice. Hearth Record doesn’t copy them; each opens on cpsc.gov.

Who made and sold it?

  • Made by CESSO, LLC, Cumming, Ga.
  • Firm’s Web site, mail-order catalogue and outdoor specialty stores nationwide, from January 2001 through December 2003, for about $70.
  • Made in United States and China, as the notice gives it.
Source:

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

Was anyone hurt?

CESSO has received three reports of consumer injury associated with leveler failure.

Source:

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

What the record doesn’t say

  • The notice lists no UPCs, so check the model, the description and the photos.
  • The notice lists no model numbers in a field of their own; its description may give them.
  • How many have been returned or fixed isn’t in the notice.
Source:

Hearth Record wrote these lines.

Sources

  • U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Recalls API.

    Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain (U.S. Government work). CPSC asks to be credited, and that no endorsement be implied.

Source:

Recalls of kids’ and home products are from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). CPSC does not endorse Hearth Record. Copied on Oct 19, 2026.

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