Around 500,000 ranges sold throughout the country are being removed from the market after dozen burning fires, people and pets, said LG Electronics on Wednesday on a notice published by the United States Consumer Product Product Commission.
The market withdrawal implies ranges with knobs mounted on the front that can be accidentally rotated, with CPSC receiving at least 86 unintentional activation reports. The retired ranges have been involved in more than 28 fires, and at least five caused damage to extended property for a total of more than $ 340,000. According to the Federal Agency, at least eight minor wounds have been reported, including burns, and at least three of the fires involved the death of pets.
Found in appliance stores, including Best Buy, Costco, The Home Depot, Lowe’s and online on LG.com, the retired ranges were sold from 2015 to January 2025 for between $ 1,400 and $ 2,650, according to the model. Manufactured in Mexico and Korea by LG Electronics Inc. de Korea, the ranges were imported by the company’s American subsidiary, based in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
You can find the model and the serial numbers involved in the retirement here.
The owners of the retired ranges must communicate with LG to obtain a free warning label and placement instructions. The label reminds consumers who use the lock/control block function in the range panel to disable the activation of heating elements when they are not in use.
“Keep children and pets”
“Consumers are warned to keep children away from the knobs, to verify the rank knobs to make sure they are turned off before leaving home or going to bed, and not leaving objects in the range when the range is not in use “, remember warning fixed.
LG Electronics can be contacted at 800-399-3265 from 9 am to 6 pm Est Monday to Friday, or by email to lgrange.recall@lge.comor in https://lgecares.com/rangerecall.
The problem apparently extends beyond a brand, as Samsung’s demonstrates Summer memory Of more than 1.1 million ranges sold throughout the country after about 250 injured fires and killed at least seven pets.
According to the agency, CPSC was “aware of the incidents in which the houses burned, and the people died of domestic fires initiated by accidentally activated knobs if of the people who run into the knobs or pets that activate The range. summary of a meeting group of June 27.
Between 2018 and May 30, 2024, CPSC data shows that there were 338 incidents that involve a range or stove accidentally activated, which involves 10 manufacturers. Two of those incidents led to deaths, while 31 resulted in non -fatal injuries, according to the agency.
“In addition, CPSC staff has found two other fatal incidents in which a range was accidentally turned on when a knob was hit, but the manufacturer is unknown.”
A video taken in 2024 seemed to illustrate the risks, with home security images that show a dog jumping to a stove briefly and lighting the burner, with his flames lighting a nearby cardboard box. The owner of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was treated by smoke inhalation, and his family was temporarily displaced by the June 26 fire, CBS KKTV affiliate reported.
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