Posted on 07/14/2025 9:48:19 AM PDT by Red Badger
This is scary.
Walmart has announced it has recalled about 850,000 Ozark Trail water bottles after some caused serious injuries, including blindness.
The recall was made after it was discovered that the water bottle lid can eject on its own, making it dangerous to consumers.
The Hill filled in more details on the recall:
Walmart is recalling approximately 850,000 Ozark Trail water bottles after multiple injuries, including two incidents that resulted in consumers suffering permanent blindness, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
The CPSC stated that the screwcap lid on the 64-ounce stainless steel water bottles “can forcefully eject” when opening after food or beverages have been inside for a while.
So far, the CPSC says it has received three reports of people being struck in the face by the bottles’ lids. Two people have suffered permanent vision loss after being hit in the eye.
The bottles, which have been sold in Walmart stores nationwide since 2017, are silver with a black lid and the Ozark Trail logo on the side. They bear the model number 83-662 on the product packaging, the CPSC says.
NBC News reported more details on how the water bottles caused blindness to two people:
The recall covers Walmart’s “Ozark Trail 64 oz Stainless Steel Insulated Water Bottles,” which have been sold at the chain’s stores across the country since 2017. According to a notice published by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on Thursday, these products pose “serious impact and laceration hazards.”
That’s because when a consumer attempts to open the bottles “after food, carbonated beverages or perishable beverages, such as juice or milk, are stored inside over time,” the lid can eject forcefully, the CPSC notes.
As of Thursday’s announcement, Walmart had received three reports of consumers who were injured after being struck in the face by these lids when opening their bottles. And two of those people “suffered permanent vision loss after being struck in the eye,” the CPSC added.
Consumers are urged to stop using the now-recalled Ozark Trail bottles — and contact Walmart for a full refund. Shoppers can also bring the products to their local Walmart store for that compensation.
“The health and safety of our customers is always a top priority,” Walmart said in a statement sent to The Associated Press. The company added that it had “fully cooperated” with the CPSC and the manufacturer of the recalled product “to remove it from our stores and notify consumers”
This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport.
“The threads on this device must be really tight.”
Yes.
Think about the coefficient of expansion difference between Aluminum or Stainless Steel and plastic?
You could do an experiment sealing one of the bottles with ice cold soft drinks. Put it in the sun, and the pressure will increase with temperatur and the dimensions of the plastic will change less than that of the metal.
It will go Pop.
Another thought.
I am pretty shure that the bottles are “made in China”.
I’m not saying we should kill all the stupid people. I’m saying we should remove all the warning labels and let things sort themselves out.
As much as I loathe Bette Midler these days, Ruthless People is still a guilty pleasure.
That has to be from Ruthless People “GIVE THE BAG TO BOZO”
No need to worry. Someone stupid enough to drink house paint isn’t going to pay attention to a warning label.
Yep!...................
Great movie!.................
Cork business reopens
Joy Behar & a younger looking Bette Midler: separated at birth.
Midler is about 80 now.
Walmart Walmart Walmart, now tell us which Chicom company manufactured them.
Was the bottle plastic or metal?
I see a handle on it and a screw on cap. Getting injured from this sounds like those hospital ER stories where they remove something from someone’s butt who “accidentally” fell on it in the shower.
Hard acrylic plastic. Three sections, bonded with a glue. The glue won the battle of strength over the plastic.
Doesn’t take much. We’re in that time of year in Tucson where water bottles get pressurized just moving from inside (70 odd degrees) to out (many more than that) for an hour or so. I’ve had plenty of bike bottle showers from that. The lid shouldn’t become a projectile. Like another poster said, a little groove in the threads to relieve pressure with the lid still seated enough to not go flying will do.
Yes, yikes.
This is what happens when the gay folks drove scouting out of existence, and women's lib drove housewivery and women's magazines dedicated to housework and "home economics" out of business, and the globalists drove industrial work out of the country. None of the past three generations have learned practical lore, basic physics, biology and chemistry, nor survival skills. Why take STEM classes when they can just get a degree in alternate kink or "grievance studies" and "feel educated"?
Yes, we have one for weedicide. It builds up a lot of pressure. Thankfully it has a release valve -- that yellow button.
That picture looks like Justice Thomas and Tucker Carlson! What is it from, a movie?
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