HearMuffs Kids Hearing Protection Recalled Over Burn Hazard

Children’s listening to safety product HearMuffs are designed to guard your child’s ears at loud occasions like live shows and soccer video games. But the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a recall on Thursday, warning that batteries within the HearMuffs—used to energy the machine for each “active” noise discount and “soothe” modes—can rupture and probably trigger accidents.

“It has been determined the Vinnic brand AAA alkaline batteries included in the HearMuffs can rupture, posing hearing, projectile and/or burn injury,” the maker of HearMuffs, Lucid Audio, warned on its website.

“The HearMuffs were sold at Sam’s Club, Kroger and other stores nationwide and online from January 2018 through December 2021.”

Those different shops embrace Amazon, which has already pulled the product from sale on-line. Lucid Audio has obtained 19 reviews of batteries rupturing however fortunately no reviews of accidents.

The recall consists of 4 fashions of HearMuffs, all of which use AAA batteries, together with the LA-infant-AM-WH, LA-infant-ASM-WH, LA-infant-ASM-WHPlus, and LA-kids-AM-WH. Models that aren’t powered are usually not included within the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s recall.

Consumers who’re uncertain if their HearMuffs are a part of the recall can submit the serial quantity on their product at CPSC website. Consumers are then given path instructions on the way to register their HearMuffs and obtain free batteries.

Why has a recall been issued for HearMuffs headphones that include Vinnic model batteries however there doesn’t look like a recall of the batteries independently? If the treatment on this recall is just to be despatched substitute batteries, it could appear to be the batteries themselves are the issue, and never the best way that HearMuffs work together with the batteries.

Gizmodo had the identical questions and has contacted the Consumer Product Safety Commission for solutions. We’ll replace this publish if we hear again.