As of October 27, 2025, Crate & Barrel has received eight reports of chair legs breaking in Canada, and no reports of injuries. In the United States, the company has received 149 reports of chair legs breaking and 11 reports of injuries.

A year after a massive fire raged through Tri-Star Cabinet and Top Co. in New Lenox, Illinois, the company has finally decided that the once promised rebuild was, in the long run, too expensive and that there were too many complications to rebuild, and so the owner has decided to permanently shutter the company.

At Pennsylvania Lumbermens Mutual Insurance Company (PLM), we’ve seen some of the costliest fires derive from stacked oily rag explosions, breakroom appliance disasters, and improvised electrical fixes.

Over the past five years, the serious injury rate in manufacturing has been 44 percent higher than the average across all industries in B.C., according to

The Canadian government and the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Board have recalled Byron Emperador Tables and Byron Reeded Stone Tables and Desks due to the potential risk of injuries.The dining tables and desk can collapse if a gap has formed where the legs attach to the tabletop and a horizontal force is then applied to the top, posing a potential injury hazard.As of October 1, 2025, the company has received no reports of incidents or injuries in Canada. In the United States, the company received one report of injury, which resulted in a laceration.

A group of Gloster residents has filed a federal lawsuit against Drax Biomass and its subsidiaries, alleging that the company’s Amite BioEnergy wood pellet facility in the town has, for nearly a decade, unlawfully released massive amounts of toxic pollutants into their community, violating the federal Clean Air Act and Mississippi law.

Torit PowerCore CPV bin vent collectors are almost 70% shorter than other bag-style bin vents and address the frequent challenge of tight space limitations.

Health Canada is proposing to update its standard for free-standing clothing storage units (CSUs) to reflect new performance criteria.

To encourage the proliferation of product safety tips in online product descriptions, where millions of consumers are scrolling and researching products and trends every day, the Alliance4Safety challenges manufacturers, importers, retailers and ecommerce sites to make these simple website improvements in 2026:

Consumers seeking low-cost storage solutions began finding a new option online in the fall of 2023: a product marketed as a “fabric dresser.” More than 60,000 of the lightweight units with fabric drawers have now been recalled for failing to meet requirements set forth in the STURDY Act* – a federal regulation implemented in September 2023 that sets a stability standard for furniture that consumers use to store clothing.