They include the brand names Consolidated, Premier, Addison, and Weatherking. About 110,000 of these furnaces were manufactured and distributed under the Premier/Consolidated labels. Consolidated Industries (formerly Premier Furnace Co.), which was liquidated under Chapter 7 bankruptcy laws, manufactured approximately 140,000 of these furnaces for sale in California between 19 under many different brand names. The firm that announced the recall is out of business.ĬPSC issued a safety alert warning about these furnaces in September 2000. This recall remedy is no longer available.
Home, hardware and specialty stores, and independent contractors sold these furnaces in California from January 1983 through December 1992 for about $2,000. Private labelers sold these furnaces in California under the following brand names and model numbers, which are written on a label on an outside panel of the furnace. and The Trane Company, a division of American Standard Inc., of Tyler, Texas. Goodman Manufacturing Company L.P., of Houston, Texas Heat Controller Inc., of Jackson, Mich. Goettl Air Conditioning Inc., of Phoenix, Ariz. The firms participating in this recall are Amana Company, L.P., of Amana, Iowa Bard Manufacturing, of Bryan, Ohio Carrier Corporation, of Syracuse, N.Y. No injuries have been reported.Īll the furnaces can be identified by the steel rods installed above the burners. These furnaces pose a substantial risk of fire.ĬPSC has received 50 reports of fires associated with the 140,000 horizontal furnaces manufactured by Consolidated Industries Inc. The units involved are gas-fired horizontal furnaces equipped with steel "NOx" rods installed above the burners and are commonly called NOx rod furnaces. Seven firms are offering to repair or replace certain furnaces, which were sold under their own labels, but were manufactured by Consolidated Industries Inc. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is announcing a recall of about 30,000 furnaces sold in California.
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