The Consumer Product Safety Commission is urging consumers to remove or replace the latch and lock on the recalled Lane and Virginia Maid brand cedar chests. Fourteen children have suffocated after ...

About 12 million of the chests were recalled in 1996 by The Lane Company because the chest’s lid automatically locks when the lid is closed, which led to the suffocation deaths of multiple children ...

Sept. 4 -- Despite consumer agency efforts to recall items that are unsafe for children, some of these hazardous, and even deadly, household accessories are still out there, and still not repaired.

NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 5, 2004--Lane Home Furnishings is seeking the public's help in locating and making safer for children as many as 28,200 cedar chests made between 1912 and 1987 ...

These are examples of the older model cedar chests and the locks, which can trap children inside. Fourteen kids have died after becoming trapped inside these recalled chests since 1977. Photo: ...

There is a renewed warning about potentially dangerous cedar chests that automatically lock when the lid is closed. The Consumer Product Safety Commission is urging consumers to remove or replace the ...