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CPSC, Meri-Jon Artist Colony Announce Recall to Repair Bean Bag Chairs

CPSC recall 96093. Recall date: .

Hazard, in the words of CPSC

Suffocation

CPSC recall 96093 has the recall date 2 Apr 1996. The notice names the firm CPSC, Meri-Jon Artist Colony Announce. The CPSC record gives no number of units. This register puts the recall under the hazard Suffocation. CPSC gives the product type Bean Bag Chairs.

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CPSC recall 96093: incidents, units, products and firms
UnitsThe CPSC record gives no number
Description
April 2, 1996 Release # 96-093 WASHINGTON, D.C.- As part of its ongoing investigation of zippered bean bag chairs that may present a suffocation hazard, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Meri-Jon Artist Colony of Lexington, N.C., announced today a major cooperative repair program for 150,000 zippered bean bag chairs.CPSC's ongoing investigation has included corrective actions and repair programs implemented by 15 other bean bag chair manufacturers. Previous corrective actions have affected over 12 million bean bag chairs.CPSC is aware of 5 deaths from suffocation and at least 23 cases where children recovered from their injuries involving zippered bean bag chairs. The children who died unzipped the bean bag chairs, crawled inside, inhaled and ingested the small pellets of foam filling. In other cases children choked while playing with pellets from unzipped bean bag chairs which clogged their mouths and noses. None of these deaths and incidents involved bean bag chairs manufactured by Meri-Jon Artist Colony.Meri-Jon Artist Colony has sold bean bag chairs nationwide since 1980 at small retail furniture stores. The chairs, which are sold in a variety of styles…
ProductMeri-Jon Artist Colony zippered bean bag chairs, Bean Bag Chairs

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The recall in context

Units in this recall
not givenMedian of 1996: not given
CPSC recalls of 1996
138
Recalls of 1996 with one of the same hazards
1%
Recalls of 1996 in the category Bean Bag Chairs
1%
Recalls on the register that name CPSC, Meri-Jon Artist Colony Announce
1

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Recall Register. CPSC recall 96093. https://recallregister.com/product/5778-cpsc-meri-jon-artist-colony-announce-recall-to-repair-bean-bag-chairs/. Source: CPSC Recall Retrieval Web Services. Data through .

Sources

Source
US Consumer Product Safety Commission
Licence
US government work, public domain
Data retrieved
30 Sep 2026
Newest CPSC recall on the register
24 Sep 2026

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Questions

Does CPSC recall 96093 report injuries?
The CPSC record of recall 96093 has no incident or injury text.