Residential Elevators 2022-08-11 Kitchen serious CPSC
Kitchen · CPSC · Recall #CPSC-22199
Residential Elevators Recall
Issued August 11, 2022 · Residential Elevators · 31,000 units affected
In August 2022, Residential Elevators recalled the Residential Elevators, a serious kitchen recall reported by the CPSC.
Compiled by Maya Ellison, RecallCheckr
What this means for you
Young children can become entrapped in the space between the exterior landing (hoistway) door and the interior elevator car door or gate if there is a hazardous gap and suffer serious injuries or death when the elevator is called to another floor.
What you should do
- 1 Keep using Residential Elevators only as advised. See the remedy below.
- 2 Set it aside where it won't be used by mistake.
- 3 Contact Residential Elevators to arrange your repair. See the official notice below for contact details.
- 4 Keep the product until your remedy is fully processed. You may need it.
Official remedy (Repair): Consumers should keep unsupervised young children away from the recalled residential elevators and contact Residential Elevators, Inc. for instructions on how to measure for space guards to correct any hazardous gap. Space guards will be provided free of charge and assistance with space guard installation will be provided upon request.
Recall details
- Brand
- Residential Elevators
- Category
- Kitchen
- Recall date
- August 11, 2022
- Units affected
- 31,000
- Sold at
- Directly to consumers and by authorized dealers nationwide from 1986 through July 2022 for between $20,000 and $35,000 including installation.
- Recall number
- CPSC-22199
- Made in
- United States
- Issuing agency
- CPSC
In context
- Residential Elevators has 2 recalls in our database.
- We're tracking 296 Kitchen recalls in our database.
- 31,000 units is enough to reach roughly 1 in every 4,226 US households.
- This is the 38th Kitchen recall we've logged in 2022.