Posted on 02/17/2025 1:11:40 PM PST by Red Badger
Igloo is recalling over one million of its 90 Qt. Flip & Tow Rolling Coolers sold across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico because the tow handles have the potential to amputate fingers.
Most of the time, these recalls are out of an abundance of caution, but it sounds like these coolers have taken a few fingers already.
Igloo has received 12 injury reports in the U.S., the CPSC notes, which include fingertip amputations, bone fractures, and lacerations. There are no known injuries in Canada or Mexico.
If you have a cooler listed here, you can register for the recall online or contact Texas-based Igloo at 888-943-5182 or igloo90qt@sedgwick.com to request a safer handle.
On the other hand, if you do lose a finger to your cooler, chances are there's some ice nearby to put it on for transport to the emergency room.
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.
this story puts shivers down my spine!
Need the “ewww” meme here.
It’s hard to engineer a product safe enough for the tide pod generation.
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.
Crappy Chinese design?
My grandfather would say, “just put some ice on it”.
Likely made in China?
Sharpen the handles up and send them back.
It’s mainly the red ones, because nobody buys them in blue
I hate it when that happens.
Single digit deflation.
It’s not clear to me how this is happening. Does anyone here know the mechanism of injury?
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.
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.
You can’t buy a ladder or a hammer or a Ruger firearm that doesn’t have an encyclopedia of warnings on it
Or Happy Fun Ball.
Or a animated accident recreation that would be used in a court trial.
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.
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Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.
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