| PRODUCTS DANGEROUS TO CONSUMERS! 2008 |
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| (Car Seats/Motor Vehicles/Parts Recall At Bottom of List) AMPUTATION BURNS (Non-Fire)
DROWNING
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MOTOR VEHICLES
MOTOR VEHICLE PARTS
MOTOR CYCLES
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| Amputation: Includes products that can cause amputation, including finger amputations. Such products, might cause lesser injuries as well. Burn/Non-Fire Related: Includes products that can cause chemical burns, burns from hot liquids (scalds), burns from overheated objects such as batteries and electrical appliances. If recall states product can overhead, but does not mention fire, it is included here. Choking: Products posing this hazard to (in most) children; for example, where a product or part is small enough to lodge in child's throat. Collapse: Includes incidents where a product collapses, comes apart or detaches, such as furniture and TV stand tipovers, and fixtures such as light and fans detaching and hitting consumers. If the collapse leads to the person falling, that would be categorized under "falls". Drowning: Where products can specifically cause drowning, or where the failure of the product to protect from drowning can lead to that result. Electrocution/Electric Shock: Product can cause these hazards, or fail to prevent such hazards if they do operate properly. Entrapment: Where the failure of the product leads to a condition where the user is entrapped and cannot escape. This includes products that, by failing, cannot warn of the circumstances, such as a GPS device that fails and thus can't help rescuers find mountain climbers trapped. Explosion/Projectiles: includes products that can explode or throw projectiles if the product fails. Fall: includes incidents where the hazard is a fall by the consumer (not a fall of a product, which would be under "collapse"). However, in certain cases a product that could cause a fall or other hazard might be included in a more specific category, such as "vehicle accident". Includes ladders, baby walkers that can fall down stairs, climbing products. Fire & Fire-Related Burn: includes products that can cause a fire and/or burn related to fire. Internal Injury: includes products that can cause internal injuries that are not better classified in other categories. Includes products with small magnets, dive sticks, scuba products that by failing lead to rapid decompression, and products causing impact injuries. Laceration: includes injuries to the skin, including abrasions, minor punctures, and cuts. Magnet Ingestion: includes products with parts containing small magnets that can be ingested by young children; if two magnets are ingested and attract one another internally, serious injury or death can result. Poisoning: includes all incidents of chemical and biological hazards except for lead and carbon monoxide, and includes ingestion, inhalation, and skin contact. Lead and carbon monoxide (CO) are listed as separate categories. Strangulation: products posing this hazard to (in most cases) children; for example, where a drawstring or cord can loop around a child's neck. Suffocation: products posing this hazard to (in most cases) children; for example, where a material (e.g. pillow, mattress), because of a defect, can be positioned to cover a child's mouth. This category does not include drowning, which is listed separately. Vehicle Accident: includes incidents where any injury, from laceration to death, can be caused if a rider loses control or crashes. Vehicles include all terrain vehicles (ATVs), snowmobiles, utility vehicles, bicycles, and scooters - that is, where the speed is great enough that losing control would cause injury. |
| RECENT RECALLS |
| DEFINITIONS |
| 2007 |
| REASON FOR RECALL |