Product Recall Number: 16-155
Why was Avalanche rescue probes recalled?
The lock button on the probe can fail to engage and lock, causing the probe not to function as intended. This can interfere with finding someone buried beneath snow, posing a suffocation hazard.
Product Recall Number: 16-155
Product Safety Warning Number:
Date: 2016-05-03
Product Safety Warning Date:
Name Of Product: Avalanche rescue probes
Description: The lock button on the probe can fail to engage and lock, causing the probe not to function as intended. This can interfere with finding someone buried beneath snow.
Hazard Description: The lock button on the probe can fail to engage and lock, causing the probe not to function as intended. This can interfere with finding someone buried beneath snow, posing a suffocation hazard.
Consumer Action: None Listed
Original Product Safety Warning Announcement: None Listed
Remedy Type: Refund, Replace
Units: About 1,600 in the U.S. (in addition, about 230 were sold in Canada)
Incidents: None reported
Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled probes and call Cascade Designs for instructions on receiving a refund or free replacement probe.
Sold At: REI and other outdoor recreation stores nationwide and online at Amazon.com and other websites from September 2014 through January 2016 for between $60 and $70.
Importers: Cascade Designs Inc., of Seattle, Wash.
Manufacturers: None Listed
Distributors: None Listed
Manufactured In: Korea
Custom Label: None Listed
Custom Field: None Listed