Thermos Recalls 8.2 Million Stainless King Food Jars and Bottles Due to Serious Impact Injury and Laceration Hazards
Recalled Thermos 16-oz Stainless King Food Jar (SK3000), 40-oz Sportsman Food & Beverage Bottle (SK3010), and 24-oz Stainless King Food Jar (SK3020)
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The stopper of the recalled Food Jars and Bottles has no stress aid within the middle.
Product Name:
Thermos Stainless King 3000 and 3020 Food Jars and Thermos Sportsman 3010 Food & Beverage Bottles
Hazard:
If perishable meals or drinks are saved within the container for an prolonged time period, the stopper can forcefully eject when opened, which may end up in severe impression damage and laceration hazards to the buyer.
Recall Date:
April 30, 2026
Units:
About 5.8 million Stainless King Food Jars and about 2.3 million Sportsman Food & Beverage Bottles
Recall Details
Description:
This recall includes Thermos Stainless King Food Jars with mannequin numbers SK3000 and SK3020, manufactured earlier than July 2023 and all Thermos Sportsman Food & Beverage Bottles with mannequin quantity SK3010. The stopper of the recalled Food Jars and Food & Beverage Bottles doesn’t have a stress aid within the middle. The containers have been offered in a wide range of colours in sizes of 16-oz, mannequin quantity SK3000, 24-oz, mannequin quantity SK3020, and 40-oz, mannequin quantity SK3010. The Thermos trademark is positioned on the facet of the product. The mannequin numbers are printed on the underside of the recalled containers.
Remedy:
Consumers ought to cease utilizing the recalled Food Jars and Bottles instantly and contact Thermos to obtain a free alternative stress aid stopper or alternative Bottle, relying on the mannequin. For recalled 3000 and 3020 Food Jars, shoppers will probably be requested to throw away the stopper and ship a photograph of the disposed stopper to Thermos. For recalled 3010 Bottles, shoppers will probably be requested to return their recalled Bottle to Thermos utilizing a pay as you go delivery label.
Incidents/Injuries:
Thermos has acquired 27 stories from shoppers who have been struck by a stopper that forcefully ejected from these containers upon opening, together with complaints of impression and laceration accidents requiring medical consideration. Three shoppers suffered everlasting imaginative and prescient loss after being struck within the eye.
Sold At:
Target, Walmart and different shops nationwide and on-line at Amazon.com, Walmart.com, Target.com and Thermos.com between round March 2008 and July 2024 for about $30.
Importer(s):
Thermos LLC, of ​​Schaumburg, Illinois
Manufactured In:
China and Malaysia
About the US CPSC
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is charged with defending the general public from unreasonable threat of damage related to the usage of hundreds of varieties of shopper merchandise. Deaths, accidents, and property harm from shopper product-related incidents value the nation greater than $1 trillion yearly. Since the CPSC was established greater than 50 years in the past, it has labored to guarantee the protection of shopper merchandise, which has contributed to a decline in accidents related to these merchandise.
Federal regulation prohibits any particular person from promoting merchandise topic to a Commission ordered recall or a voluntary recall undertaken in session with the CPSC.
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