Product type
Recalls involving LED, halogen, and CFL light bulbs.
26 official CPSC notices published 1996–2024, covering at least 12 million units.
Type the model number from your light bulb's label. Every model number named in a light bulb recall is listed below, grouped by notice.
72 model numbers
Lunera Lighting Helen GX23 LED lamps · 16-724 · 2016
ProLED bulbs · 14-231 · 2014
Infinity Green Candelabra LED Bulbs · 14-702 · 2013
J. Hunt White 2-Bulb Floor Lamp · 13-275 · 2013
LED Light Bulbs · 13-142 · 2013
Light Bulbs · 11-219 · 2011
Teng Fei Energy Saving Light Bulbs · 05-005 · 2004
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Some packages of the light bulbs can include 3V bulbs intended for battery powered fixtures instead of the 120V versions as labeled. If a 3V bulb is used in a 120V fixture, it can burst, posing a laceration hazard to consumers.
Parkway Trading and Manufacturing
The halogen light bulbs can shatter while in use in a lamp or light fixture, posing laceration and fire hazards to consumers.
The LED light bulb's base can separate from the connector, posing an electrical shock hazard.
The light bulb's base can separate from the connector, posing an electrical shock hazard.
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The lamp can separate from its base and fall onto consumers below, posing an impact hazard.
Lamps can overheat, posing fire, burn and electric shock hazards.
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Water can enter the lamp in wet location applications, posing an electric shock hazard to the user.
The lens of the bulb can shatter in the lamp or the lens can fall and shatter, posing a laceration and burn hazard.
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Lamps can overheat and melt, posing a burn hazard.
Halco Lighting Technologies
The LED bulbs can overheat and fall onto consumers below, posing impact and burn hazards.
The metal housing/lens assembly can separate from the bulb's base and fall. This poses a risk of injury from impact to bystanders.
The bulbs can overheat and catch fire, posing a fire hazard.
Totals add up the figures the notices state, counting a reannounced or restated recall once; 25 of 26 notices add a unit count. A notice that gives no number adds nothing.
Counted across all 26 notices on file as of October 31, 2026. Each line says how many notices it rests on.
Amazon (5), The Home Depot (3), W.W. Grainger (2), Meijer (1), and Target (1) are the stores named most often in the 25 notices that say where light bulbs were sold. 10 of the 25 notices mention online sales.
The 23 notices that give a price range from $0.99 to $300. Half of them name a price of $17 or less.
By the 24 notices that give sale dates, half the products were on sale for 8 months or less; the longest for 5 years. Half the recalls came within 11 months of the first sale; the other half reached products that had been on sale longer.
A replacement in 11 of the 21 notices that name a remedy, a refund in 9, a repair in 2. Some notices offer more than one.
Fire is named in 14 of the 26 notices (54%), against 24% of all CPSC notices on file. Then burn (7), electric shock (7), laceration (7), and fall (5).
21 of the 25 notices that describe incidents report at least one; 1 reports injuries. 4 said none had been reported when the recall was announced.
10 of the 26 notices list model numbers. They also name date codes or manufacture dates in 10, UPC codes in 9, lot or batch numbers in 1. A matching model number is a reason to open the notice, not the last word.
Where the notices say the numbers are: “on a sticker on the bottom of the lamp” and “on the white ceramic area at the base of the lamps”.
China (21), United States (3), Mexico (2), Poland (1) and South Korea (1), in the 26 notices that name a manufacturing country.
1 light bulb notice in 2021–2025, down from 5 in 2016–2020. Across all CPSC notices on file, the count rose 16% over the same years.
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Every notice, newest first. Unit counts are the U.S. figures each notice states.
As of October 31, 2026, CPSC has published 26 recall notices for light bulbs since 1996, covering at least 12 million units. The most recent is “Meijer Recalls December Home Branded "Candelabra" Style Light Bulbs Due to Laceration Hazard” (CPSC 24-099), announced February 1, 2024.
No. As of October 31, 2026, CPSC has published no recall notice for light bulbs in 2026. The most recent was announced February 1, 2024 (CPSC 24-099).
“CPSC, Osram Sylvania Products Inc. Announce Recall of Decorative Light Bulbs” (CPSC 04-192), announced August 4, 2004: about 5.6 million units.
Brands named most often: Philips Lighting (3), Philips (2), Technical Consumer Products (2), H-E-B, HEB Grocery, Meijer, Meijer Distribution and Montgomery Ward, plus 15 more brands. Brand-name products are often made by another firm, so one recall can span several brands.
Find the model number on the product's rating label, then type it into the model-number lookup on this page. A match means the number appears in an official CPSC notice; open that notice to confirm any date codes or serial ranges it lists. No match is not proof that a product is safe. 10 of the 26 notices here list model numbers. They also name date codes or manufacture dates in 10 and lot or batch numbers in 1.
Follow the remedy in the official notice and contact the firm it names. Across light bulb recalls, the remedies offered most often are replacement (11), refund (9) and repair (2).
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