Walmart Recalls 850,000 Water Bottles After Two Consumers Suffer Vision Loss From Ejecting Caps

NEW YORK — Walmart is recalling astir 850,000 stainless alloy h2o bottles because nan lid tin “forcefully eject” and unexpectedly onslaught consumers — resulting successful imperishable imagination nonaccomplishment for 2 group to date.

The callback covers Walmart’s “Ozark Trail 64 oz Stainless Steel Insulated Water Bottles,” which person been sold astatine nan chain’s stores crossed nan state since 2017. According to a notice published by nan U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission connected Thursday, these products airs “serious effect and laceration hazards.”

Consumers should instantly extremity utilizing nan recalled h2o bottles and interaction Walmart for a afloat refund. U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

That’s because erstwhile a user attempts to unfastened nan bottles “after food, carbonated beverages aliases perishable beverages, specified arsenic juice aliases milk, are stored wrong complete time,” nan lid tin eject forcefully, nan CPSC notes.

As of Thursday’s announcement, Walmart had received 3 reports of consumers who were injured aft being struck successful nan look by these lids erstwhile opening their bottles. And 2 of those group “suffered imperishable imagination nonaccomplishment aft being struck successful nan eye,” nan CPSC added.

Consumers are urged to extremity utilizing nan now-recalled Ozark Trail bottles — and interaction Walmart for a afloat refund. Shoppers tin besides bring nan products to their section Walmart shop for that compensation.

“The wellness and information of our customers is ever a apical priority,” Walmart said successful a connection sent to The Associated Press. The institution added that it had “fully cooperated” pinch nan CPSC and nan shaper of nan recalled merchandise “to region it from our stores and notify consumers”

The bottles being recalled tin besides beryllium identified by their exemplary number, 83-662 — which doesn’t look connected nan merchandise itself, but would show connected packaging. The stainless-steel guidelines is metallic and nan lid is simply a black, one-piece screw cap. There is besides an Ozark Trail logo embedded connected nan broadside of nan 64-ounce bottle.