Target Recalls Threshold Floor Lamps Due to Fire and Shock Hazard
J. Hunt
Hazard: The lamp can short when a standard one-way bulb is fully tightened in the lamp's three-way socket, posing a fire and shock hazard to consumers.
Product type
Recalls involving LED, halogen, and CFL light bulbs.
25 official CPSC notices published 1996–2024, matched on the notice's product identity — not on description text.
J. Hunt
Hazard: The lamp can short when a standard one-way bulb is fully tightened in the lamp's three-way socket, posing a fire and shock hazard to consumers.
Philips Lighting
Hazard: A lead wire in the bulb's housing can have an improper fitting, which can electrify the entire lamp and pose a shock hazard.
Philips Lighting
Hazard: The internal wiring can arc causing the lamp to catch fire or the glass to shatter. This poses fire and laceration hazards.
Citizen Electronics and Lighting Science Group
Hazard: The bulbs can overheat during use, posing a fire hazard.
Philips Lighting
Hazard: The glue that attaches the glass outer envelope or globe to the body of the lamp can fail allowing the glass outer envelope to fall and strike persons and objects below, posing a laceration hazard to consumers.
Telstar Products d/b/a Sprint International
Hazard: The light bulbs can overheat, posing a fire hazard to consumers.
Eco-Story
Hazard: When used without a Class II transformer, the lamp can overheat, posing a fire hazard.
Eastern America Trio Products
Hazard: Light bulb can overheat and catch fire.
Comtrad, Division of Waljon Ltd., Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Hazard: Some of the bulbs have imploded or broken apart within the first several minutes after they are first illuminated. Broken glass particles pose a laceration hazard to consumers.
Technical Consumer Products
Hazard: The bulbs can overheat and spark, posing a burn hazard to consumers.
Teng Fei Trading
Hazard: The base of the bulb is not flame-retardant, as required in the voluntary standard for this type of bulb. Electrical components in the bulb can overheat, posing a fire hazard.
Osram Sylvania Products
Hazard: The glass bulb can separate from its base and break during use. The broken glass can present a laceration injury to consumers, the hot broken bulb can present a burn injury to consumers, and an exposed bulb filament can present a shock hazard if handled while power remains applied to the fixture.