Product Security Australia has issued an pressing recall for the ÅSKSTORM 40W USB charger, bought at IKEA on-line and in-store nationwide. This explicit charger can get broken or damaged, exposing customers to dwell elements of the cable.
There’s a threat of burn accidents or demise from electrical shock if a consumer touches the broken cable that’s dwell with electrical energy. Scary!
The precise mannequin of the IKEA charger that has been recalled is:
- ÅSKSTORM 40W USB charger S
- Darkish gray color
- Mannequin quantity ‘ICPSW5-40-1’ c
- Article quantity 304.611.94
The IKEA charger was bought nationally by means of IKEA shops and web sites from 1 April 2020 to five December 2023.
IKEA Charger recall: What’s the chance?
Based on the PSA:
There’s a threat of burn accidents or demise from electrical shock if a consumer touches a broken cable that’s dwell with electrical energy. There may be additionally a threat of harm to property if the charger catches fireplace. Incidents have occurred the place cables had been broken and precipitated electrical shock and burn accidents to customers. “
If you happen to do have this IKEA charger, even when it appears to be like okay and isn’t broken in any means, PSA advises that you simply cease utilizing the product and make contact with IKEA through cellphone or in-store to obtain a full refund. There’s no want to point out a receipt.
Particulars on who to contact for extra data:
- ACT/NSW/TAS – 02 8020 6641
- Queensland – 07 3380 6800
- Victoria/Tasmania – 03 8523 2154
- Western Australia – 08 8234 3944
- South Australia – 08 8234 3333
Risks of chargers
Chargers play an necessary function in our every day lives however they are often broken fairly simply. In case you are utilizing a charger, all the time test that it isn’t broken earlier than utilizing it.
We shared a narrative final yr a few mum’s cellphone charger catching on fireplace whereas charging on the ground beside her mattress. Belinda was mendacity in mattress checking her emails when she thought she may odor one thing burning. At first she thought there was {an electrical} fireplace within the roof and went to research. When she returned, she realised the odor was coming from her bed room.
As she tells Mum Central,
I rushed again into my bed room and, yep, smoke was wafting up from my shaggy ground rug subsequent to our mattress. Once I leaned down, I may see my cellphone cable caught on fireplace.
I lifted the cable up off the rug and it was on fireplace! OMG! The tip had melted off and was burning the plush rug which was beginning a hearth.”
And I imply a extremely shiny orange fiery orange. I ripped the cable out of the charging port and bumped into the toilet to place the burning cellphone cable beneath the faucet. The wire was HOT and the tip of the cable was utterly melted. At this level, I realised that the tip lightning plug had really melted off into the rug so I ran again to seize the pinnacle of the cable and take care of that.
The rug was nonetheless smoking and beginning to soften however fortunately I used to be capable of cease the hearth by stomping on it. I rushed to the toilet to moist the pinnacle and cease it from melting and cease to really course of what had simply occurred. It actually may have been a lot worse.”
As Belinda explains, the cellphone didn’t really feel scorching to the touch when she was utilizing it and the cellphone cable was virtually model new. Very scary!
Apple additionally issued a warning when utilizing their iPhones, urging prospects to solely use chargers that say MiA or Made for iPhone. You must also pay attention to any counterfeit MiA charging cables which can be extensively accessible on the web, in accordance with Apple.
Apple additionally warns iPhone customers to not place the cellphone beneath a blanket, pillow, or your physique when it’s related to a charger. It needs to be positioned face-up on a wi-fi charger or flat on a desk.
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