Nearly 2 million hand warmers sold online for years at stores like Amazon and Walmart have been recalled after a woman’s death, hundreds of reported burn injuries, and more than a dozen fires, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Thursday.<\/p>\n
The federal agency says the Chinese manufacturer yanked the hand warmers over concerns the lithium-ion batteries can overheat and ignite. <\/p>\n
According to the CPSC, the manufacturer, Ocoopa Direct, has received 1,480 reports of hand warmers overheating, resulting in 15 fires, 350 burn injuries, and the February death of an 83-year-old San Diego woman.<\/p>\n
The hand warmers were sold online at Amazon.com, Ocoopa.com, Ocoopa.net, and Walmart.com from September 2018 through May 2026 for between $15 and $60. Customers should stop using them immediately and contact OCOOPA Direct for recompense. <\/p>\n
This recall involves OCOOPA-branded rechargeable lithium-ion battery hand warmers, models UT3053, UT3056, ZLS-118, ZLS-118S, ZLS-118D, H01 and H01(PD.) The dual-sided, rechargeable hand warmers were sold in varying colors and designs, in packs of two warmers that can magnetically be joined and with a charging cable. <\/p>\n
The hand warmers have a USB-C port to charge the built-in lithium-ion batteries in each unit. The adjustable-heat hand warmers have LED indicator lights on the hard plastic shell and a silicone lanyard. \u201cOCOOPA\u201d is printed on the top of the hand warmers and on the product packaging. The model number and three-digit batch number are printed on the hand warmers\u2019 underside.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nearly 2 million hand warmers sold online for years at stores like Amazon and Walmart have been recalled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,32062],"class_list":["post-310132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-recalls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}