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CPSC, American Signature Announce Recall of Dinette Chairs

Home product recall 04-575. Announced by CPSC on Aug 18, 2004.

CPSC’s own notice, on cpsc.gov

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The short answer

Announced by CPSC on Aug 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?

The stretch bar, which connects to the chair’s legs, can detach during normal use, causing the user to fall and suffer injuries.

Source:

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

What should you do?

Consumers should contact the store where the chairs were purchased to arrange for a pickup of the original chair in exchange for a replacement chair.

Source:

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

  • How to reach the firm: For more information, consumers should contact the store manager of their local American Signature or Value City Furniture store.

Which ones are recalled?

This recall involves “Windsor” style arm chairs. The chairs measure 40 inches high by 21 inches wide. Made of black wood, the chairs have 9 metal spindles across the rounded back.

About 380 units, as CPSC gives them.

Windsor dinette chair.

Source:

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

CPSC’s photos

CPSC shows 1 photo on its notice. Hearth Record doesn’t copy them; each opens on cpsc.gov.

Who made and sold it?

  • Made by American Signature Inc., Columbus, Ohio.
  • American Signature Home and Value City Furniture stores in the Midwest and South during the month of April 2004, for about $70 a pair.
  • Made in United States, as the notice gives it.
Source:

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

Was anyone hurt?

American Signature has received two reports of chairs collapsing, including one report of a consumer who fell and bruised her legs.

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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