Video baby monitor’s batteries
CPSC Recall #16-231 — July 21, 2016
Product
Video baby monitor’s batteries
Description
The video monitor’s batteries can overheat, swell and expand and cause the battery cover to open or come off. This can expose hot batteries.
Hazard
The video baby monitor’s batteries can overheat, swell and expand and cause the battery cover to open or come off. This can expose hot batteries, posing a burn hazard to consumers.
Incidents / Injuries
The firm has received 488 reports of batteries overheating and expanding; about 140 reports involved the swelling of the battery pack, causing its plastic casing to open or come off. No injuries have been reported.
Remedy
Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled monitors and contact Lorex to receive a full refund.
Units Affected
About 26,000 (in addition, 8,000 were sold in Canada)
Sold At
Babies “R” Us, B&H, Best Buy, Target, The Home Depot, Walmart and online at www.amazon.com and www.lorextechnology.com from May 2013 through April 2016. The video baby monitors were sold in bundles for between $60 and $140.
Importer
FLIR Commercial Systems Inc., of Goleta, Calif.
Manufactured In
China