OPSS Serious Adaptors plugs sockets
Product Recall: Professional Hair Straightener (2012-0157)
Published by Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS): · Ref. 2012-0157
Reason for the recall
- Product presents a serious risk of electric shock as a result of a poorly constructed plug.
Reasonsee the original notice
Brandnot stated
Batch number(s)not stated
Barcodenot stated
Product
Professional hair straightener
- Category
- Adaptors plugs sockets
- Country of origin
- China
- Type of recall
- Product recall
- Summary
- Product: Professional hair straightener
- Hazard: Product presents a serious risk of electric shock as a result of a poorly constructed plug.
- Corrective action: Recall of the product from end users and listing removed by the online marketplace (Wish).
- Product information
- Type
- Electrical appliances and equipment - hair straightener
- Electrical ratings
- Input: AC220V 50Hz 30W-60W
- Country of Origin
- China
- Product description
- Black hair straightening product with steam vents and two pin plug with UK adaptor. Packaged in black and yellow cardboard packaging.
- Product Report and Image
- Link to Product Image and PDF
- Hazard
- The UK 3-pin adaptor supplied with the product is poorly built, with insufficient distance between the plug and the edge. In addition, the plug is not fused. This puts the user at risk of coming into contact with live pins when plugging the adaptor into or removing from the socket which is not electrically isolated, leading to an electric shock.
- The product does not meet the requirements of the Plugs & Sockets (Safety) Regulations 1994.
- Corrective action
- The product has been recalled from the end users.
- The listing has been removed by the online marketplace (Wish).
- Additional information
- PSD case number: 2012-0157
- Notified by: Office for Product Safety and Standards
What to do
- Recall of the product from end users and listing removed by the online marketplace (Wish).
- Product information
- Type
- Electrical appliances and equipment - hair straightener
- Electrical ratings
- Input: AC220V 50Hz 30W-60W
Source: Product Safety Alerts, Reports and Recalls (OPSS) — Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS)
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