Mattress Manufacturers Awake to New U.S. Flammability Standards

Friday, July 6th, 2007 Liability

It took less than three minutes for the old mattress to become a flaming inferno. And even inside the safe confines of a Sealy Corp. testing lab in North Carolina, it took a technician armed with a gas mask and fire extinguisher, and backed by automatic sprinklers, to douse the blaze. "We had flames in the (smoke) hood, heat in the lab room," said lab technician Sean Haynes.

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