Half A Million 'Hoverboards' Recalled For Fire Risk
Self-balancing scooters, nicknamed ‘hoverboards’, were the hottest new gadget last year and were on everyone’s holiday list. Months later, however, more than 500,000 of these self-balancing scooters were recalled due to safety issues. The battery pack can overheat, explode or catch on fire, and may cause personal injury and property damage.
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission issued the recall after dozens of hoverboards began to spark, smoke and overheat. In December of last year, videos and pictures of hoverboards catching fire in houses and malls began to surface on the internet.
According to CPSC, there have been about 99 reports of injuries from the lithium-ion battery packs, such as burns to the legs, arms and neck, as well over $2 million in property damage. It’s extremely important to consult with a Tulsa Personal Injury Lawyer if you have been injured by a hoverboard, or any other consumer product, to recover medical costs, property damage, and lost wages.
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Hoverboard makers and retailers were previously warned in early 2016 that their products would be taken off the shelves if they did not comply with voluntary safety standards. The hoverboards were sold in major stores, mall kiosks and online from June 2015 through May 2016 and cost around $900. To find out whether your hoverboard model is part of the recall, call the CPSC consumer hotline at (800) 638-2772 or check out CPSC.gov. Consumers have the options of a full refund, a free repair or a free replacement, depending on the
In her Fire in a Canebrake, Laura Wexler describes an important event in mid-twentieth century American race relations, long ago relegated to the closet of American consciousness. In so doing, Wexler not only skillfully describes the event—the Moore’s Ford lynching of 1946—but incorporates it into our understanding of the present world and past by retaining the complexities of doubt and deception that surrounded the event when it occurred, and which still confound it in historical records. By skillfully navigating these currents of deceit, too, Wexler is not only able to portray them to the reader in full form, but also historicize this muddled record in the context of certain larger historical truths. In this fashion, and by refusing to cede to a desire for closure by drawing easy but inherently flawed conclusions regarding the individuals directly responsible for the 1946 lynching, Wexler demonstrates that she is more interested in a larger historical picture than the single event to which she dedicates her text. And, in so doing, she rebukes the doubts of those who question the importance of “bringing up” the lynching, lending powerful motivation and purpose to her writing that sustains her narrative, and the audience’s attention to it.
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