If you own a certain type of cedar chest, a leading consumer safety group wants you to take action immediately. Wednesday, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued an alert urging consumers ...

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 ...

There’s a renewed warning about certain hope chests that could put your child at risk for suffocation. Several children have died of suffocation after becoming trapped in the auto-locking chests by ...

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 ...