Kaye also flagged the fact there is no safety standard in place for hoverboards, and warned that a UL mark, a sign of electrical compliance granted by a respected certification company, was not a reliable indicator of device safety. The group’s safety-conscious chairman Kaye also said that the boards present a serious falling risk, a comment supported by dozens of videos showing users, including boxing legend Mike Tyson, falling from scooters onto their keisters.
“However, I am concerned, for example, that the current designs of these products might not take fully into consideration the different weights of different users, potentially leading to the units speeding up or lurching in a manner that a user would not have reason to anticipate.” “At first glance, it is easy to believe the risk of falling off a hoverboard is an obvious one and to dismiss those injuries as user inexperience or error,” said Kaye in a statement.
CPSC said it expects other manufacturers and retailers to follow suit, who has been investigating hoverboard safety issues since December.īecause of “the increasing number of serious injuries and emergency room visits associated with these products,” the commission announced that it was looking into dozens of blazes involving the smart boards, thought to be caused by lithium-ion batteries and the hoverboards’ electronic wiring. The MBTA announced in May that hoverboards are no longer allowed on T property, including stations, buses, subways, trains and commuter boats.The U.S. The case was voluntarily dismissed a year later. Razor, a California company, was sued in Massachusetts in 2013 after a Milton man said he slipped and broke his ankle.
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“Consumers should look for the serial number to ?determine if their product is part of the recall.” “The recall is being conducted because there is a possibility that the lithium-ion battery packs in all uncertified hoverboards can overheat, posing a risk of the products smoking or catching fire,” Razor USA said in a statement. Others being recalled include 84,000 of Keenford’s iMoto hoverboards, 70,000 of Hoverboard LLC’s Powerboard and 28,000 of Razor USA’s Hovertrax. In a statement yesterday, the company stressed that “consumer safety remains Swagway’s number one priority” and that they are working “closely with the (CPSC) to voluntarily create a recall and retrofit program that addresses those concerns.” Swagway manufactured the hoverboard that allegedly caught fire in May in a North End home, sparking a blaze that caused about $100,000 in ?damage and left eight people homeless.Īt the time of the fire, Swagway said it stood by its product. The company’s $400 Swagway X1 also had the most reports of injuries at 16. Of the companies named, Swagway, had the most recalled hoverboards, at 267,000.
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Hoverboard owners should stop using the recalled devices and return them for a full ?refund, free repair or a free ?replacement, the CPSC said. At least 18 injuries have been ?reported, including burns to the neck, legs or arms, according to the CPSC. There have been 99 reports to the consumer regulator about battery packs that exploded or caught fire, the CPSC said. One involving falls, which could have been anticipated, and one involving fires, which definitely was not.” “They were made and sold without a safety standard in place.
“Let me be clear about this - all of the hoverboard models included in this recall were made with fundamental design flaws that put people at real risk,” Kaye added. All told, about 501,000 hoverboards were recalled by the CPSC.
The CPSC investigated more than 60 hoverboard fires in more than 20 states that caused more than $2 million in property damage, Kaye said. “To prevent another fire and possibly a death, I am urging consumers who have a recalled hoverboard to take advantage of this recall.” “Homes and apartments have been destroyed because of fires related to hazardous hoverboards,” commission chairman Elliot Kaye said in a statement. More than half a million hoverboards have been recalled after numerous reports of the wildly popular motorized scooters catching on fire, smoking or simply exploding, according to a mandate from the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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