https://allamerican.org/investigation/igloo/
Posted on 05/09/2025 4:33:16 PM PDT by dynachrome
Igloo is expanding a recall of more than 1.2 million of its coolers after reports of nearly 80 injuries since the initial recall was announced in February 2025, including 26 resulting in fingertip amputations, bone fractures or lacerations.
The Igloo 90 Qt. Flip & Tow Rolling Coolers have a tow handle that can pinch users’ fingertips against the product, posing potential amputation and other crushing risks, according to the recall notice from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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as the newspapers say here - Drugs or alcohol were a factor inn this accident.
In other news, every car ever made has been recalled because people slam their fingers and hands in the doors. Over 150,000 a year.
https://www.autoblog.com/news/watch-your-fingers-most-car-related-injuries-caused-by-doors
With coolers you got 80 injuries out of 1,200,000 sold. When you do that math it’s a ratio of 0.000066666666667 or 0.006666666666667 %.
Nothing is foolproof because fools are so ingenious. Also, math is hard.
https://allamerican.org/investigation/igloo/
Remember Jarts? You might, or, maybe not.
Because they were banned. Not just banned per se, it’s even illegal to sell used product. Why? Well as tragic as it was, a single child was killed by her older brother. And iirc the father was a state legislator or attorney. A single death, and that was the end of Jarts.
Mom bought us Jarts and a Croquet set with S&H Green Stamps. We didn’t kill anybody.
Comparing a car door to a cooler lid? Really?
In addition to the weight and use, adults operate cars while children take things in and out of coolers.
This is third world design and testing, despite 50+ years of standards to prevent amputations.
Lawn darts were not banned just because of two deaths but because more than 6,000 people suffered serious head injuries, including the loss of an eye.
https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/1987/LAWN-DARTS-CAN-CAUSE-SERIOUS-OR-FATAL-HEAD-INJURIES-AND-DEATH
Most of the victims were bystanders, most of the players were children, most of the injured were under 15 and 50% of those were under ten.
No game is worth that risk.
I know. Right? How did we ever survive childhood intentionally doing
dangerous things? We provided a jobs program for guardian angels.
You can’t expect everyone to be able to operate complicated machinery like coolers.
I’ve seen ice last longer on the sidewalk than inside an igloo cooler
I save up enough Marlboro “miles” to get a jean jacket.
We used to tie army men to yard darts with a string and throw them in the air. How about razor blades on kites?
Put some ice on it...
See what I mean? That’s why we can’t have nice things. Car doors are the perfect example, btw. They don’t need to be driving to smash their fingers in the door.
... adults operate cars while children take things in and out of coolers.
Hahahahahaha! Children never operate car doors? Really?
As I point out, the cooler accident rate approaches zero to multiple decimal places. There is NO product that is so safe that someone can't hurt themselves with it.
Yet, strangely enough, other coolers don't amputate children's fingers.
Strange. What could it be? Maybe safety standards implemented decades ago along with design and safety reviews done by first world professionals instead of third world mimics.
Toddlers?
Laugh over the sound of automatic sliding doors on minivans reversing when the power sliding door safety stop is triggered. Companies spend fortunes preventing amputations (other than Igloo apparently).
And again comparing a car door with a cooler is deceptive at best. You don't bring your car door into the house. Parents pay far more attention to children operating car doors than they do to children getting something from a cooler.
So... making more of a faulty product to move the decimal point is the goal.
That's the same argument the sociopaths at MurdeRNA make.
No it’s not. And the product is not faulty if one in a million people stupidly hurt themselves. It’s the stupid people who are faulty.
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