Hazard
178 recalls in our database tag this hazard, drawn from FDA, USDA FSIS, CPSC, and NHTSA source notices.
Of the 178 alarm failure recalls we have scored against our rubric, 5 (3%) are Critical — deaths or serious injuries reported, or the agency’s own highest classification — and 23 (13%) are Severe.
Which agencies issued them
Hazard tags are short, machine-readable labels we attach to every recall to make cross-cutting queries possible — “all alarm failure recalls regardless of agency”, “all listeria recalls in California”, “all airbag recalls in 2025”. The tags are extracted from each recall’s source text during the LLM rewrite step and validated against a fixed schema.
A recall can carry multiple tags — a Listeria recall might also be tagged ready-to-eat and undeclared-allergen. Use the full-text search if you want to combine hazard tags with brand or category filters.
Revco Products is recalling 10,043 Gas Sniffer carbon monoxide detectors because the alarm may fail at hazardous levels, posing a risk of serious injury or death.
Seatt Corporation is recalling six brands of battery-powered smoke detectors sold after July 10, 1992, because they may not sound an alarm during a fire.
BRK is recalling approximately 3.5 million wired-in smoke detectors because the horns may fail to sound during a fire due to corrosion.