Igloo recalls more than 1 million coolers because the handles are causing finger amputations

Not The Bee ^ | February 17, 2025 | Staff

[Jonty30]

What kind of springs are they using that can do that? I can imagine the coolers pinching, but you almost have to engineer them in order to amputate fingers.

[MNDude]

this story puts shivers down my spine!

Need the “ewww” meme here.

[Tell It Right]

It’s hard to engineer a product safe enough for the tide pod generation.

[George from New England]

So finally a company that responded to customer’s complaints about handles that stopped recoiling after time and actually improved their product with better, longer lasting, springs.

[ViLaLuz]

Crappy Chinese design?

[dblshot]

My grandfather would say, “just put some ice on it”.

[Candor7]

Likely made in China?

Sharpen the handles up and send them back.

[monkeyshine]

It’s mainly the red ones, because nobody buys them in blue

[Jeff Chandler]

I hate it when that happens.

[9YearLurker]

Single digit deflation.

[sonova]

It’s not clear to me how this is happening. Does anyone here know the mechanism of injury?

[T.B. Yoits]

We are living in the Age of Regression, where things such as safety designs and standards are being discovered anew by employees (more likely subcontractors) who do not have the skills or experience of their predecessors.

In a society willing to tolerate testing of self-driving cars among pedestrians on city streets, any fiction is acceptable to these korporate bosses and their lackey designers.

[T.B. Yoits]

It’s hard to engineer a product safe enough for the tide pod generation.

Mock them all you want but it's their grandfathers' generation that accepted a horrific level of personal injury and death from unsafe product designs.

[2nd Amendment]

You can’t buy a ladder or a hammer or a Ruger firearm that doesn’t have an encyclopedia of warnings on it

[dfwgator]

Or Happy Fun Ball.

[Deaf Smith]

I would like to see a animated safety video of the accident recreation, complete with the guy wearing all his PPE sans his gloves.

Or a animated accident recreation that would be used in a court trial.

[SovereignVA]

I’ve pinched my finger pretty bad in the metal handle on a five-gallon bucket, but I still buy the same buckets. I learned not to hold them on the sides.

[T.B. Yoits]

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[MikelTackNailer]

Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.