Floor Lamp Fire Hazard

This style of floor or desktop lamp is a potential fire hazard.

Floor lamp fire hazard. Around the holiday season it is common for people to put up electrical decorations both indoors and outdoors. Octopus style floor and desk lamp. Rh recalls riveted mesh floor lamps due to fire hazard recall alert. Floor lamps recalled by dolan northwest due to shock and fire hazards.

Due to their inherent fire safety hazard halogen torchiere style floor lamps and desk lamps with halogen tube bulbs are not permitted to be used in tufts buildings. Small children have been known to drop a blanket or some other flammable object on the top of a lamp and leave it. Halogen torchiere style floor lamps. The fact that the bulb is made out of glass can present you with a potential danger all by itself.

As shown in table 1 the most common hazard scenario associated with these lamps was unintended contact between the lamp and combustible or flammable materials that resulted in fire 89. Recently there were documented dormitory fires caused by these types of lamps at colleges and universities. Incandescent bulbs also get really hot. Its cause was apparently an overturned halogen lamp.

Product safety and fire officials across the country have. This recall involves the riveted mesh floor lamp. Oftentimes we purchase lamps thinking that they meet all safety regulations. Cpsc recall remedy notice due to covid 19 due to the extraordinary circumstances surrounding covid 19 some of the remedies identified in recall press releases may not be available at this time.

If you have one of these lamps please remove it from your room as soon as possible. Lamps halogen torchiere lamp. Of these 260 incidents 232 were fire related. The industrial steel lamp with a mesh steel shade measures about 74 inches in height and 23 inches in diameter.

However they can be fire hazards so it is better to be safe and turn all lights off when not in use. In fact the safety of halogen floor lamps has been questioned for more than a year. This recall involves burien model floor lamps with four individual light sockets and white glass shades on top of four individual tubes of varying lengths. While it would not ignite immediately over time it could potentially cause something to catch on fire.

It came with four 60w t9 edison bulbs and a circular foot on off switch on the electrical cord at the base. And a 450 000 halogen lamp fire in 1995 at arkansas hendrix college in the us resulted in halogen pole lamps being banned in a number of us dormitories.