West Elm Recalls Dover Dining Table Due to Injury Hazard

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West Elm Recalls Dover Dining Table Due to Injury Hazard

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.

Name of Product: Dover Dining Table

Units: About 830 in the United States and about 10 in Canada

Importer: West Elm, a division of Williams-Sonoma, Inc., of San Francisco

Hazard: The wooden base of the table can collapse, causing the glass table top to fall. This poses an injury hazard to consumers.

Incidents/Injuries: The firm is aware of 14 reports of tables collapsing or breaking, including one report of a bruise to a consumer’s leg.

Description: The Dover dining table is a tempered glass-top table with a brown wooden base. The base has four legs, four buttress support bars and three glasstop support bars. “West Elm” and “SKU: 2188233” are printed on a white label on the underside of the long, center beam.

Sold by: West Elm retail and online stores nationwide from July 2011 through October 2011 for about $500.

Manufactured in: China