{"id":84660,"date":"2025-10-17T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/84660\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T16:31:10","slug":"popular-exercise-equipment-recalled-over-fire-hazard-as-multiple-machines-spontaneously-burst-into-flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/84660\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular exercise equipment recalled over fire hazard&#8230; as multiple machines spontaneously burst into flames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">More than 40,000 rowing machines have been recalled in North America over a fire hazard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">IFit, which is headquartered in <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/utah\/index.html\" id=\"mol-93bcf610-ab60-11f0-978d-ed04b4f2ab63\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Utah<\/a>, has voluntarily recalled its\u00a0NordicTrack rowing machine\u00a0after reports of the screen console overheating, catching on fire, smoking, melting, and causing significant property damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The company said it sold around\u00a044,800 of the rowing machines in the US and 700 in <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/canada\/index.html\" id=\"mol-93bbe4a0-ab60-11f0-978d-ed04b4f2ab63\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Canada<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">So far, there have been eight reported incidents involving the machines, which were manufactured in <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/china\/index.html\" id=\"mol-93bbe4a1-ab60-11f0-978d-ed04b4f2ab63\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">China<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The reported cases include two incidents involving fire and six reports of the rower screens smoking or melting. No injuries have been reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">IFit has said that these cases have resulted in &#8216;at least $6,000 in property damage&#8217; but to date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Customers have been instructed to stop using the recalled rowing machines immediately and to unplug them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A screen console on an exercise machine could overheat and ignite due to electrical faults, poor ventilation, or overheating of internal components like power supplies or circuit boards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-af8f38a33edab246\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/103078263-15202021-IFit_which_is_headquartered_in_Utah_has_voluntarily_recalled_its-a-41_17607088845.jpeg\" height=\"346\" width=\"634\" alt=\"IFit, which is headquartered in Utah, has voluntarily recalled its NordicTrack rowing machine after reports of the screen console overheating, catching on fire, smoking, melting\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">IFit, which is headquartered in Utah, has voluntarily recalled its NordicTrack rowing machine after reports of the screen console overheating, catching on fire, smoking, melting<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cpsc.gov\/Recalls\/2026\/iFIT-Recalls-NordicTrack-Rowing-Machines-Due-to-Fire-Hazard\">The recalled<\/a> NordicTrack rowers have the model number NTRW19147, which can be found on a sticker at the base of the machine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The recall applies to the model numbers\u00a0NTRW19147.0, NTRW19147.1, NTRW19147.2 and NTRW19147.3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">These machines are colored black, gray, and white, with &#8216;NordicTrack&#8217; printed in black on the front legs and &#8216;RW900&#8217; printed in white on the back legs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">According to iFit, only the older version of this rowing machine is affected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The rowers were sold nationwide, both in stores and online, from November 2018 to April 2022, for around $1,700.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Retailers included Best Buy, Dick&#8217;s Sporting Goods, Nebraska Furniture Mart, ABT, as well as nordictrack.com and Amazon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">No refunds are being offered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Instead, iFit is providing free installation of a new screen console, which can be scheduled online.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-329e3cdb0eb4dcf4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/103079737-15202021-image-m-43_1760709119057.jpg\" height=\"186\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The recall applies to the model numbers NTRW19147.0, NTRW19147.1, NTRW19147.2 and NTRW19147.3\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The recall applies to the model numbers NTRW19147.0, NTRW19147.1, NTRW19147.2 and NTRW19147.3<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">NordicTrack is one of four brands owned by iFit, with the others being\u00a0iFit, ProForm and Freemotion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">A 2024 survey by the\u00a0US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) found that exercise equipment sent almost half a million Americans to the emergency room in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Roughly 445,642 people visited the hospital in 2022 because of gym equipment, while another 719,335 required treatment for injuries related to basketball and cycling, combined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In 2021, the fitness giant Peloton recalled 126,000 of their Tread+ treadmills after 72 people reported injuries &#8211; including cuts, burns and broken bones. One child died after being sucked into and trapped under the machine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Stairmaster recalled 3,500 of it&#8217;s stair stepper machines in 2018, after some models were found to be accelerating automatically &#8211; leading to falls and injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 40,000 rowing machines have been recalled in North America over a fire hazard.\u00a0 IFit, which is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[275,607,557,565,134,111,139,69,4205],"class_list":{"0":"post-84660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-canada","9":"tag-china","10":"tag-dailymail","11":"tag-fitness","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-utah"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}