The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is recalling OfficeMax Task brand office chairs due to a fall hazard.
The back and the base post of the chair can break while in use, posing a fall hazard to consumers.

The recall involves OfficeMax Task chairs with model numbers OM182 and OM96614. The model number is located under the chair’s seat on a white UPC label. The chairs are charcoal or dark charcoal in color and have black plastic arms and a rolling plastic-and-metal base.

About 216,000 of the chairs were sold at OfficeMax stores across the United States, on the firm’s Web site www.officemax.com, in OfficeMax catalogs, and through direct commercial sales to businesses from September 2003 through July 2008 for between $40 and $65 US.

Consumers should immediately stop using the chairs and return them to any OfficeMax store for a full refund or a $55 gift card if the consumer does not have a receipt.

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