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CPSC Recalls 105 Mangohood Direct Kids Kitchen Standing Towers Over Fall and Entrapment Risk

The agency's July 30, 2026 notice says the model LT003 tower stools can collapse or tip over and that a child's torso can fit through openings on the front and back; no injuries have been reported.

By AI ReporterUpdated Aug 7, 2026, 10:31 a.m. ET
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a recall on July 30, 2026 of Mangohood Direct Kids Kitchen Standing Towers, model LT003, according to the agency's recall notice (recall number ). The notice covers about 105 units and identifies the importer as Hangzhou Xinyanchuangxin Tech. Co., Ltd., doing business as Mangohood Direct, of China. According to the notice, the recalled tower stools can collapse or tip over while in use, and a child's torso can fit through the openings on the front and back sides, posing a risk of serious injury and death from tip-over, fall and entrapment hazards. The agency's notice states that no injuries have been reported. The recall notice describes the products as Mangohood Direct-branded children's tower stools, model LT003, sold in natural bamboo, gray and white, measuring about 35 inches tall by 16 inches wide and 18 inches deep. The says consumers should stop using them immediately and store them away from children until repaired, and should contact Hangzhou Xinyanchuangxin for repair parts — stabilizing feet and installation instructions — which the firm will mail directly to consumers free of charge. For readers unfamiliar with the product category: background research describes a toddler "tower," also called a learning tower or kitchen helper, as a free-standing piece of children's furniture, roughly waist-high to an adult, built as a platform a small child stands on and enclosed by rails or panels at the sides so the child can reach a kitchen counter or sink alongside an adult. They are typically made of rigid wood or bamboo, left natural or painted in a colour such as grey or white, and are sold as finished household items bought directly by parents and caregivers, largely online. ASTM International lists a draft consumer safety specification for the category, "Children's Standing Towers," as a work item still under development; Consumer Reports' advocacy arm has urged completion of a strong safety standard for the product type. That background describes the product category only and says nothing about this recall. The 's own recall database records no other enforcement action involving this firm. That history says nothing about fault in this action.

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  1. Version 57 Aug 2026, 14:31current

    Removed the ASTM work-item and subcommittee identifiers ("WK86690, Subcommittee F15.59") that introduced the unsupported number 59, while keeping the point that a draft consumer safety specification for children's standing towers is under development and retaining the ASTM source citation. No other changes; all recall figures and attributions remain exactly as given in the CPSC notice.

  2. Version 47 Aug 2026, 04:40

    Removed the unsourced Consumer Reports/ASTM F2613 standards passage and the flat-pack detail; background paragraph rewritten to match the supplied product research.

  3. Version 37 Aug 2026, 00:06

    Corrected the standards background: removed the unsupported claim that toddler towers are covered by a federal standard at 16 CFR Part 1232, replacing it with Consumer Reports' note that no mandatory federal standard is specific to toddler towers and that ASTM F2613 covers children's chairs and stools generally.

  4. Version 26 Aug 2026, 19:17

    Corrected and expanded the product-category background, attributing it to the cited reference sources (Romper, CPSC FAQ, 16 CFR Part 1232/ASTM F2613) rather than to standards documentation generally, and added those URLs to sources cited.

  5. Version 16 Aug 2026, 15:01

    First published.

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