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Savaria and Garaventa branded residential elevators Recall
Issued January 11, 2022 · Savaria Corporation · 19,500 units affected
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 due to a hazardous gap, and suffer serious injuries or death when the elevator is called to another floor.
What you should do
- 1 Keep using Savaria and Garaventa branded residential elevators only as advised. See the remedy below.
- 2 Set it aside where it won't be used by mistake.
- 3 Contact Savaria Corporation 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 the manufacturers 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 on request.
Recall details
- Brand
- Savaria Corporation
- Category
- Home
- Recall date
- January 11, 2022
- Units affected
- 19,500
- Sold at
- Savaria and Garaventa branded residential elevators and parts were sold nationwide through a network of authorized dealers and, occasionally, directly to consumers from January 1999 through December 2021 for between approximately $20,000 to $35,000 including installation.
- Recall number
- CPSC-22047
- Made in
- Canada
- Issuing agency
- CPSC
In context
- Savaria Corporation has 1 recall in our database.
- We're tracking 138 Home recalls in our database.
- 19,500 units is enough to reach roughly 1 in every 6,718 US households.
- This is the 19th Home recall we've logged in 2022.