Posted by on under sony batteries, laptop batteries, th time, hagerman, product safety, lenovo, milli, timeframe, laptops, dell, toshiba, hp, sony | 
Scott Hagerman passes along news of yet another recall of Sony laptop batteries. The batteries in question, manufactured in the same timeframe as those involved in the massive 2006 recall, are in laptops sold by HP, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo, and Acer. Neither Apple nor Sony itself used these batteries in their laptops. This time 100,000 batteries are involved — 65,000 of them sold outside of the US — vs. the 10 million recalled in 2006. The Consumer Product Safety Commission fielded 19 reports of batteries overheating and/or catching fire.
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Posted by on under residential fires, property losses, solid fuel, heating systems, chimneys, product safety, chimney, 50 states, peoe |
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, reports that some 23,600 residential fires in the 50 states were related to solid fuel appliances and equipment in 1996. An additional 5,500 fires were attributed to chimneys and chimney connectors serving heating systems burning liquid and other fuels. As a result of these fires, 130 people died, 230 people were injured, and total property losses were set at more than $184.4 million.
Tagi: residential fires, property losses, solid fuel, heating systems, chimneys, product safety, chimney, 50 states, peoe
Posted by blogs@bobvila.com (Ben) on under blinds and shades, window blinds, product safety, rk, dots, hundreds of thousands, households |
Home products are not usually at the center of conspiracy theories. I, however, cannot help but connect the dots on what is fast becoming the picture of a widespread plan to reduce our population by proliferating hazardous window blinds and shades into households across America. This week, not one, not two, but three US Consumer Product Safety Commission product recalls saw hundreds of thousands of blinds and shades recalled due to high risk (and a few incidents) of strangulation and ...
Tagi: blinds and shades, window blinds, product safety, rk, dots, hundreds of thousands, households
Posted by blogs@bobvila.com (Ben) on under wood gates, infants and toddlers, safety website, safety device, slats, product safety, hearth, stairs, instances |
The Consumer Product Safety Commission recently issued two safety recalls that you should be aware of. The first is the Evenflo Top-of-Stairs Plus Wood Gates, a safety device to keep small children away from the stairs. In a number of instances the slats on the gates have broken, posing a falling hazard to infants and toddlers. About 150,000 units were recalled. More info can be found at Evenflo's safety website. The second recall is of 5,700 units of Lennox Hearth ...
Tagi: wood gates, infants and toddlers, safety website, safety device, slats, product safety, hearth, stairs, instances
Posted by blogs@bobvila.com (Ben) on under roman shades, oriental furniture, roman shade, product recall, product safety, blinds, tens of thousands, lt |
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) added another type of Roman Shade to the list of those recalled due to strangulation hazard. A massive shade and blind recall back in November saw tens of thousands of roman shades and blinds recalled because of the choking and strangulation hazard that the cords posed for children. Now 25,000 roman shades and roll up blinds from retailer Oriental Furniture are being recalled for those same reasons. Fortunately, no incidents or injuries ...
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