Tabletop hearth pits recalled for flash hearth and flame jetting dangers

The Colsen-branded hearth pits, that are designed to carry fires by burning liquid alcohol, pose a “flame jetting” hazard, in keeping with a recall discover revealed Thursday by the U.S. Shopper Product Security Fee. The flame jetting can happen when a person is refilling the container, if hearth flashes again and propels the burning alcohol.

Alcohol flames will be invisible, and the liquid may spill or leak out of the pit throughout use, inflicting a flash hearth. The recall discover warns that this could result in damage shortly and unexpectedly, potential inflicting burns “in lower than one second that may be critical and lethal.”

To this point, the CPSC says it has acquired 31 stories of flame jetting or flames escaping from the hearth pits, leading to 19 burn accidents. Two of these had been third-degree burns on greater than 40% of the victims’ our bodies, the fee mentioned, and a minimum of six incidents concerned surgical procedure, extended medical remedy, lack of perform or everlasting disfigurement.

The CPSC and Miami-based Colsen urge customers to cease utilizing the hearth pits instantly and throw them away. The fee famous that it’s in opposition to the regulation to resell or donate the now-recalled merchandise.

However there’s additionally no refunds obtainable. In response to the recall discover, the corporate “doesn’t have the monetary sources to supply a treatment to customers” and stopped promoting the pits a 12 months after buying the product enterprise.

The about 89,500 hearth pits underneath recall had been bought at main retailers like Amazon.com, Wayfair, Walmart and Sharper Picture — in addition to on social media platforms like TikTok and Meta-owned apps, from January 2020 by July 2024. That features hearth pits that had been beforehand manufactured by one other firm, Thursday’s recall announcement notes, though the discover didn’t establish that firm.

The seven fashions of the recalled hearth pits different in dimension, form and colour. Sale costs ranged from $40 to $90.

In a press release on its web site, Colsen mentioned it was launching this recall with the CPSC as a result of “we take security very critically.”