Vornado Air will pay $7.5 million over claims it didn’t report a heater that caused 19 fires.
in August 2018 after confirming a 90-year-old man in Chanhassen, Minnesota, had died in a fire involving the heater in December 2017. At the time, the company said it had also received 19 reports of the heaters catching on fire.
More than 350,000 of the made-in-China heaters were sold at retailers nationwide from August 2009 through March 2018 for about $30. with the CPSC, Vornado said it agreed to the settlement to avoid litigation and that it does not admit to violating the law. This isn't the first time a Vornado product has received federal scrutiny. The CPSC in January of 2008 reached an
with a trust acting on behalf of the then-dissolved Vornado Air Circulation Systems to pay a $500,000 fine to settle claims it failed to quickly report more than 300 cases of defective heaters overheating, melting, smoking or catching fire. of one million portable electric whole room heaters sold from July 1991 through January 2004 for between $50 and $120 due to a faulty electric connection, according to the notice.
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