Pay attention, I do know a water bottle recall is a bit outdoors the norm for RideApart. Nonetheless, it is a fairly large recall, and since I am fairly positive nearly everybody within the powersports world enjoys holding ourselves hydrated, it feels just like the accountable factor to do to say this recall right here. It appears like a factor that as many individuals as attainable must find out about.
Large everything-retailer Walmart is recalling its 64-ounce Ozark Trail stainless steel insulated water bottle as a result of, to cite the recall, “the lid can forcefully eject, posing severe influence and laceration hazards.” This recall was printed by the US Client Product Security Fee on July 10, 2025. Walmart has been promoting this bottle since 2017, and believes that round 850,000 of those bottles have been offered.
That is nearly 1,000,000 of these items sitting round on the market, doubtlessly ready to provide somebody a very, actually dangerous day.
Now, it will not essentially occur to everybody, however you positively don’t need it to occur to you. In response to the recall, if meals, carbonated drinks, or sure perishables like juice or milk are saved inside for a time frame and begin to ferment, the gasoline can flip the cap right into a projectile.
Thus far, Walmart has obtained three separate studies of customers “who had been injured when struck within the face by a lid forcefully ejected from these bottles upon opening.” The recall discover goes on to say that “two customers suffered everlasting imaginative and prescient loss after being struck within the eye.”
Now, this is the place it will get a bit of difficult. In response to the recall, the packaging for the affected water bottles, which retailed for round US $15, accommodates the mannequin quantity 83-662. Nonetheless, when you take away the packaging, like just about everybody will do earlier than they use their water bottles, the mannequin quantity will not be marked anyplace on or contained in the bottle.
Walmart is advising everybody who has one among these bottles to instantly cease utilizing it. When you have one among these water bottles, you possibly can return it to your nearest Walmart retailer for a refund. Involved prospects can even name Walmart customer support through its toll-free quantity at 800-925-6278 between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. Central.
The affected bottles are silver stainless-steel models with a black plastic cap that screws into place. They’ve an Ozark Path brand on the facet of the bottle, and measure 4.41 by 4.41 by 11.5 inches. These bottles have been offered at Walmart shops all through the US since 2017.
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