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Frigidaire Refrigerators Recalled Because Broken Plastic Can Dispense Into Ice Bucket
Electrolux Group
The Electrolux Group is recalling nearly 400,000 Frigidaire side-by-side refrigerators because a plastic component can break, sending pieces into the ice bucket, posing choking and laceration hazards.
The recall involves 383,240 Frigidaire side-by-side refrigerators with Slim Ice buckets manufactured between 2015 and 2019, according to a notice posted by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The recalled refrigerators have an ice bucket assembly component that can break, dropping pieces of plastic into the ice bucket.
Electrolux Group said it has received 343 reports of plastic pieces breaking off, including two incidents resulting in laceration and ingestion injuries when the pieces were dispensed out of the recalled ice bucket.
The recalled units have the model numbers DGHK2355TF, DGHX2655TF, FFSC2323TS, FGSC2335TD, FGSC2335TF, FGSS2635TD, FGSS2635TE, FGSS2635TF, FGSS2635TP, FPSC2277RF, FPSC2278UF, FPSS2677RF, LFSC2324VF, LGHK2336TD, LGHK2336TF, LGHX2636TD, and LGHX2636TF.
The refrigerators were sold at Lowes, Home Depot and other stores nationwide and online at Frigidaire.com from November 2015 through September 2019 for between $1,400 and $2,400.
Consumers are advised to immediately stop using the ice makers and contact the Electrolux Group to request a replacement ice bucket assembly component, free of charge.
TMX contributed to this article.
