Electrolux Home Products of Charlotte, N.C., is recalling about 383,240 Frigidaire branded side by side refrigerators with slim ice buckets.
The refrigerator's ice bucket assembly component can break resulting in plastic pieces entering the ice bucket, posing choking and laceration hazards if the pieces are dispensed out of the ice bucket.
The firm 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.
This recall involves certain Frigidaire branded side by side refrigerators with slim ice buckets manufactured between 2015, and 2019.
A list of the recalled model numbers may be found here.
Consumers may also go online to https://www.frigidaire.com/en/frigidaire-recall-information to see if their specific serial number is included in this recall. The model and serial numbers are printed on a serial plate located inside the refrigerator compartment.
The refrigerators, manufactured in Mexico, were sold at Lowe’s, Home Depot and other stores nationwide and online at Frigidaire.com from November 2015, through September 2019, for between $1,400 and $2,400.
What to do
Consumers should immediately stop using the ice makers and contact Electrolux Group to request a replacement ice bucket assembly component, free of charge.
Consumers may contact Electrolux Group toll-free at (888) 377-7563 from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. (ET) Monday through Friday, by email at IceBucketRecall@electrolux.com or online at www.icebucketrecall.com for more information.