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SevereCPSC·25394·Announced 2025-07-24

HydroTech expandable garden hoses can burst, posing impact and hearing hazards

HydroTech 5/8-inch Expandable Burst-Proof Hoses made on or before August 31, 2024 are being recalled because they can burst. At least 222 bursts and 29 injuries have been reported.

What this means for you

Illness, injury, or structural failure has been reported. Stop using the product immediately and contact the manufacturer for a refund or repair.

Our severity reasoning: Significant injury reports: at least 29 injuries including a bone bruise, sprains and impaired hearing across 222 reported bursts.

Plain-English summary

HydroTech 5/8-inch Expandable Burst-Proof Hoses manufactured on or before August 31, 2024 are being recalled. The hoses were sold in 25, 50, 60, 75, 100 and 200 foot lengths in various colours, with date code markings on the spigot end of the hose. About 3.6 million units are affected.

The stated hazard is that the hoses can burst, posing an impact hazard and a risk of temporarily impaired hearing. The firm has received at least 222 reports of the hoses bursting, resulting in at least 29 injuries, including one bone bruise, two sprains and five reports of temporarily impaired hearing from the sound of the hose bursting.

The hoses were sold at Ace Hardware, Amazon, Do It Best, Home Depot, Target, Walmart and other stores nationwide and online from January 2021 through April 2025 for between $20 and $136.

Consumers should immediately stop using the hoses. Those who bought from Ace Hardware, Do It Best, Home Depot or Walmart should return them to those stores for a full refund; others should cut off the regulator end and contact Winston Products, submitting photos of the cut hose through the form at hydrotechproducts.com/recall.

The recalled product

Product
HydroTech 5/8-inch Expandable Burst-Proof Hoses
Manufacturer
Winston Products, of Glenwillow, Ohio
Category
Consumer Product — Garden hose
Hazard
  • burst-hazard
  • impact-injury
  • impaired-hearing
  • pressure-failure

Distribution

Distributed nationwide across the United States.

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