NuTone Inc. to Pay $110,000 to Settle Civil Penalty Case
NEWS from CPSC
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Office of Information and Public Affairs
Washington, DC 20207
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Ronald Yelenik
February 10, 1998
(301) 504-7582
Release # 97-1351
NuTone Inc. to Pay $110,000 to Settle Civil Penalty Case
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
(CPSC) announced today that NuTone Inc. of Cincinnati, Ohio, has
agreed to pay a civil penalty of $110,000 to settle allegations
that it violated the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Act by failing
to report defects associated with its stereo receivers.
CPSC alleges that NuTone failed to report information
indicating that its wall-mounted ST-1000 stereo receivers, sold
as part of a stereo-cassette player, were susceptible to
overheating. NuTone received 12 reports of the power supply board
of units purchased prior to December 1995 overheating or melting
causing fire or smoke damage.
NuTone sold about 25,000 of these stereo receivers between
1993 and 1995.
In agreeing to settle this matter, NuTone denies that the
stereo receivers were defective or unreasonably dangerous. NuTone
also denies that it knowingly violated the reporting requirements
of the Consumer Product Safety Act.
