Practically 90,000 tabletop hearth pits for indoor and out of doors use have been recalled after a few dozen individuals have been injured from flames escaping the container.
The U.S. Shopper Product Security Fee (CPSC) introduced on Thursday that roughly 89,500 Colsen-branded hearth pits have been recalled.
“Customers ought to instantly cease utilizing the recalled hearth pits and eliminate them,” CPSC said in its recall. The assertion additionally urged individuals to not resell the product.
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Use of the recalled hearth pits may “result in damage shortly and unexpectedly, inflicting burns in lower than one second that may be critical and lethal.”
The fireplace pits encompass a concrete, open reservoir supposed to comprise burning liquid alcohol. There are seven fashions of Colsen-branded hearth pits various in dimension from 5 to 18 inches large.
Fireplace pit fashions are grey or black in coloration and are spherical, rectangular, hexagonal, sq., or skull-shaped. The fireplace pits are bought with a flame extinguisher with the “Colsen” model printed on it.
“The agency stopped promoting Colsen-branded hearth pits lower than one 12 months after it acquired the product enterprise and doesn’t have the monetary assets to supply a treatment to customers,” the patron security company said.
Apart from the Colsen web site, the firepits had been most notably bought via Amazon, Walmart, Wayfair, Sharper Picture, FlipShop, Grommet, Meta and TikTok from January 2020 to July 2024 for prices starting from $40-$90.
The product made by Colsen Fireplace Pits LLC, of Miami, Florida, has a product variety of 25-015.
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There have been 31 reviews obtained of “flame jetting and flames escaping from the concrete container,” with 19 of these leading to burn accidents. Two of these resulted in third-degree burns to greater than 40% of victims’ our bodies.
Six accidents have required surgical procedure, extended medical remedy, admission to burn remedy amenities, short-term incapacity, lack of operate, bodily remedy, or everlasting disfigurement, in line with the CPSC.