Children ’s hear protection production HearMuffs are designed to protect your tiddler ’s pinna at meretricious events like concerts and football games . But the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a recollection on Thursday , warning that batteries in the HearMuffs — used to power the gadget for both “ fighting ” disturbance simplification and “ soothe ” modes — can snap and potentially cause injuries .
“ It has been determined the Vinnic brand name AAA alkaline batteries included in the HearMuffs can rupture , puzzle auditory sense , projectile and/or burn hurt , ” the maker of HearMuffs , Lucid Audio , monish on itswebsite .
“ The HearMuffs were sell at Sam ’s Club , Kroger and other store nationwide and online from January 2018 through December 2021 . ”
Screenshot: Lucid Audio
Those other storehouse let in Amazon , which has already pulled the product from sale online . Lucid Audio has received 19 theme of batteries rupturing but thankfully no written report of injuries .
The recall includes four model of HearMuffs , all of which utilize AAA batteries , admit the LA - babe - AM - WH , LA - babe - ASM - WH , LA - infant - ASM - WHPlus , and LA - kids - AM - WH . Models that are n’t powered are not included in the Consumer Product Safety Commission ’s reminiscence .
consumer who are unsure if their HearMuffs are part of the recall can put forward the serial numeral on their ware atCPSC website . consumer are then given management counseling on how to record their HearMuffs and obtain costless batteries .
Why has a callback been issued for HearMuffs headphones that contain Vinnic brand batteries but there does n’t come along to be a reminiscence of the batteries independently ? If the remedy in this recall is simply to be sent replacement batteries , it would seem like the battery themselves are the problem , and not the way that HearMuffs interact with the shelling .
Gizmodo had the same query and has get through the Consumer Product Safety Commission for answers . We ’ll update this post if we hear back .
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