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Yeti cooler recall overview:
- Who: Yeti recalled more than 1.9 million soft coolers and gear cases.
- Why: Magnets can reportedly detach from the coolers and cases, posing a deadly risk if swallowed.
- Where: The Yeti cooler recall is active in the United States and Canada.
Yeti recalled 1.9 million soft coolers and gear cases as their magnets can detach from the coolers and cases, posing a deadly risk if swallowed.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission website published the recall March 9. It applies to the Yeti Hopper M30 Soft Cooler 1.0 and 2.0 and the Hopper M20 Soft Backpack Cooler and SideKick Dry Gear Case.
According to Yeti, the magnet-lined closures in the products can fail and result in detached magnets, posing a risk of “serious injury or death if ingested.”
When someone swallows two or more high-powered magnets, they can attract each other, or another metal object, and lodge in the digestive system, the Yeti recall says. This can result in perforations, twisting or blockage of the intestines, infection, blood poisoning and death.
So far, the company says it received 1,399 reports of the magnet-lined closures degrading or failing, including reports of missing or detached magnets. No magnet ingestions or injuries have been reported so far, Yeti says.
Yeti is not currently facing legal action over the recall, but Top Class Actions follows recalls closely as they sometimes end in class action lawsuits.
Stop using products immediately, Yeti recall says
Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled products and contact Yeti to receive a gift card or replacement product, the Yeti cooler recall states.
The company says customers can visit www.yeti.com for instructions on returning the product for the choice of a suggested replacement product of equal or greater value or a gift card with the value of the product plus an additional $25 value.
About 1.9 million of the products were in the United States, and about 40,760 were sold in Canada.
Yeti sold the products at Dick’s Sporting Goods, ACE Hardware, Academy Sports + Outdoors, Yeti and other stores nationwide and online at www.yeti.com and www.amazon.com from March 2018 to Jan. 2023. They cost about $50 for the SideKick Dry Gear Case, $325 for the Hopper M20 Soft Backpack Cooler and between $300 and $350 for the Hopper M30 Soft Cooler 1.0 and 2.0.
In other Yeti news, a 2018 class action lawsuit alleged the Yeti Rambler Colster didn’t fit cans and bottles despite advertising that it would fit “like a glove—a glove with double-wall vacuum insulation.” The case was transferred to the Western District of Texas in 2020.
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