Product type
Recalls involving power strips, surge protectors, and outlet adapters.
43 official CPSC notices published 1989–2026, covering at least 17 million units.
Type the model number from your power strip's label. Every model number named in a power strip recall is listed below, grouped by notice.
62 model numbers
ANNQUAN Power Strips · 26-161 · 2025
APC SurgeArrest surge protectors · 14-001 · 2013
SurgeMaster™ Surge Protectors · 10-024 · 2009
Volt Master Extension Cords · 02-217 · 2002
First Choice power strip surge protectors · 98-168 · 1998
Electronic Resources power strip surge protectors · 98-117 · 1998
Chandur Hasso Somito extension cords · 97-094 · 1997
Trisonic power strip surge protectors · 97-093 · 1997
Supreme Premium surge protectors · 97-079 · 1997
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The power strips do not contain supplementary overcurrent protection, which creates a risk of fire if the power strips are overloaded. The resulting fire can cause serious injury or death from smoke inhalation and burns.
Dongguan Keben Electrical Appliance
The power strips have an ungrounded metal enclosure that poses an electrocution hazard if energized, resulting in serious injury or death.
Hefei Juyuan Sporting Development
The power strips do not contain supplementary overcurrent protection, which creates a risk of fire if the power strips are overloaded. The resulting fire can cause serious injury or death from smoke inhalation and burns.
The surge protectors contain incorrect polarization and poorly soldered connections, posing shock and fire hazards.
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The surge protectors can short circuit when non-grounded plugs are connected, posing a shock or fire hazard.
Legrand Wiremold, West Hartford, Conn.
The internal electrical connections of the power strips are substandard, posing risks of overheating and fire.
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American Power Conversion (APC), now known as Schneider Electric IT
The surge protectors can overheat, smoke and melt, posing a fire hazard.
Legrand Wiremold, West Hartford, Conn.
The electrical wires are reversed on the receptacles on the power strips, posing a risk of electrical shock.
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The power strips have undersized wiring which poses a risk of shock to consumers. In addition, the wiring and plastic strip fail to meet fire resistance safety standards, posing a fire hazard to consumers.
The power strips have undersized wiring, and the wiring and plastic strip fail to meet the requirements for fire resistance, posing a fire hazard.
Improper grounding of the case and inadequate insulation for the circuit breaker poses an electrical shock hazard to consumers.
The extension cords and power strips have inadequate coating material around the cords and copper conductors that are smaller than required, posing a fire hazard to consumers.
Totals add up the figures the notices state, counting a reannounced or restated recall once; 26 of 43 notices add a unit count. A notice that gives no number adds nothing.
Counted across all 43 notices on file as of October 31, 2026. Each line says how many notices it rests on.
Amazon (7), Ace Hardware (2), Do it Best (2), The Home Depot (2), and True Value (2) are the stores named most often in the 26 notices that say where power strips were sold. 10 of the 26 notices mention online sales.
The 25 notices that give a price range from $1 to $175. Half of them name a price of $15 or less.
By the 26 notices that give sale dates, half the products were on sale for 19 months or less; the longest for 10 years. Half the recalls came within 21 months of the first sale; the other half reached products that had been on sale longer.
A refund in 9 of the 11 notices that name a remedy, a replacement in 3. Some notices offer more than one.
Electric shock is named in 34 of the 43 notices (79%), against 5% of all CPSC notices on file. Then fire (20) and burn (7).
12 of the 26 notices that describe incidents report at least one; 1 reports injuries. 14 said none had been reported when the recall was announced.
13 of the 43 notices list model numbers. They also name serial numbers in 2, date codes or manufacture dates in 7, UPC codes in 5. A matching model number is a reason to open the notice, not the last word.
Where the notices say the numbers are: “on the underside of the unit” (2 notices), “on a label on the bottom of the surge protector”, and “on the back of the package in the lower right-hand corner”.
China (36), Taiwan (2), United States (2), Malaysia (1) and Philippines (1), in the 39 notices that name a manufacturing country.
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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 43 recall notices for power strips since 1989, covering at least 17 million units. The most recent is “CCCEI Brand Power Strips Recalled Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Fire; Sold by Middle Way Electronics” (CPSC 26-346), announced March 26, 2026.
Yes. As of October 31, 2026, CPSC has published 2 recall notices for power strips in 2026, the most recent on March 26, 2026 (CPSC 26-346).
“Schneider Electric Recalls APC Surge Protectors Due to Fire Hazard” (CPSC 14-001), announced October 3, 2013: about 15 million units.
Brands named most often: Howard Berger (2), Legrand Wiremold, West Hartford, Conn. (2), Woods Industries (2), All For One, Belkin International, Big Lots, Burlington Coat Factory and Consolidated Stores, plus 32 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. 13 of the 43 notices here list model numbers. They also name serial numbers in 2 and date codes or manufacture dates in 7. The place they name most often is “on the underside of the unit”.
Follow the remedy in the official notice and contact the firm it names. Across power strip recalls, the remedies offered most often are refund (9) and replacement (3).
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