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Invacare Shower Chair chairs

1 report to CPSC, the latest made Jan 4, 2016. A report isn’t a recall.

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From SaferProducts.gov, released Oct 25, 2026.

  • 1report to CPSC
  • Jan 4, 2016the latest report was made
  • Jan 4, 2016the earliest
  • 0with the company’s comments
Brand
Invacare Shower Chair
Maker
Invacare CorporationMakers, importers or sellers, as the reports name them
Product
ChairsChairs without a type of their ownCPSC’s product type: Chairs, Other or Not Specified (code 4074), in Furniture, Furnishings & Decorations: Furniture

By month

1 report from February 2015 to January 2016; the most in January 2016, 1.
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Reports to CPSC by the month each was made, newest first
MonthReports
January 20161

How badly anyone was hurt

  • No one hurt 1 CPSC: Incident, No Injury

As each report says it, in short words; CPSC’s own words are under each.

The reports, as CPSC published them

Reports people made to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC publishes each one after sending it to the company named, and doesn’t guarantee they’re accurate. A report isn’t a recall.

Each report is the words of the person who made it, as CPSC published them. The company’s comments, where CPSC published any, are set apart as the company’s own.

Source:

CPSC, SaferProducts.gov public database export. Released Oct 25, 2026. Updated daily.

  1. No one hurt

    Made Jan 4, 2016, sent to the company Feb 10, 2016, published by CPSC Feb 25, 2016

    The product, in the report: Sold as Medical Device. A Shower Chair with adjustable legs

    Invacare manufactures a medical device marketed as a shower chair.

    The shower chair has four adjustable legs. Each leg screws both into and out of the shower chair base, thus allowing the chair to be adjustable to ‘fit’ individual shower/tub basins.

    Each adjustable legs has a designed locking mechanism, unfortunately, in the chair I purchased, lot # XXXXX, the locking mechanism on each of the 4 legs fails to lock the adjustable leg.

    A normal customer usage profile shows that the chair will be moved around the shower basin for stuff like cleaning to tub basin, pulling one self into the shower stream, or pushing the chair back to exist the tub basin.

    During this normal customer usage profile, the chair legs rotate due to the failure of the leg locking mechanism. The chair leg rotation causes the legs to randomly adjust, causing the chair to be more and more....”TIPSY” for lack of a better word.

    Customers who use this medical device are often disabled, but as often elderly. Elderly customers often suffer from dementia, altimzers, and the like. Health care providers who do the initial set up of these medical devices....shower chairs.....are not aware that with each usage by the customer, the care becomes further and further out of level, out of adjustment, and the chair ‘TIPSY-NESS’ become worse.

    As the chair becomes more unstable, the likelihood of a shower slip and fall becomes greater and greater.

    You or I can go to [REDACTED] and buy an $8 lawn chair that is waterproof and unadjustable, but will perform the same each and every day in the shower. An Invacare shower chair is $80 and is more unpredictable each and every day of its use due to leg locking mechanisms that fail to lock the legs in a given spot.

    Model
    Model / Ref 9781
    UPC
    N/A
    Serial number
    N/A
    Bought from
    Bisons Medical Supply Company
    Bought
    Jan 15, 2015, about then
    Where
    Unspecified: Home/Apartment/Condominium
    Who was involved
    Age 82, Female
    The reporter’s relation to them
    My Parent
    As this report names them
    Brand Invacare Shower Chair, made or sold by Invacare Corporation
    How badly, in CPSC’s words
    Incident, No Injury

CPSC’s disclaimer

Disclaimer: CPSC does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of the Publicly Available Consumer Product Safety Information Database on SaferProducts.gov, particularly with respect to information submitted by people outside of CPSC.

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Sources

Sources

  • U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, SaferProducts.gov public database export.

    Released Oct 25, 2026 and checked Oct 25, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain (U.S. Government work). CPSC asks to be credited, and that no endorsement be implied.

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