EU alert · Safety Gate Serious risk Electrical appliances and equipment
Travel adaptor “UNIVERSAL TRAVEL ADAPTOR” — risk: electric shock
Published in the Safety Gate weekly report: · Ref. A12/1795/19
Summary
The dimension of the openable Europe plug is significantly smaller than required. Single-pole or partial insertion of a plug into the adaptor is possible. If one of the pins is inserted in a socket, the user could touch the pins of the other plug.Furthermore, the product has a protection class II plug and therefore no earth connection. However, an appliance of protection class I (which should be earthed) may be…
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Product
Travel adaptor
- Name / model
- UNIVERSAL TRAVEL ADAPTOR · 931D /14292
- Batch number(s)
- 5 995858 142925
- Category
- Electrical appliances and equipment
- White universal travel adaptor with two USB connections. Packaging: cardboard box.
What is the risk?
- The dimension of the openable Europe plug is significantly smaller than required. Single-pole or partial insertion of a plug into the adaptor is possible. If one of the pins is inserted in a socket, the user could touch the pins of the other plug.Furthermore, the product has a protection class II plug and therefore no earth connection. However, an appliance of protection class I (which should be earthed) may be connected to the device and would consequently not be earthed. The user could touch live parts and receive an electric shock. The product does not comply with the requirements of the Low Voltage Directive and the relevant European standard IEC 60884.
Measures taken
- Type of economic operator to whom the measure(s) were ordered: DistributorCategory of measure(s): Withdrawal of the product from the market
- Date of entry into force: 26/09/2019
- Type of economic operator to whom the measure(s) were ordered: DistributorCategory of measure(s): Recall of the product from end users
- Date of entry into force: 26/09/2019
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