Australia/Canberra: Officeworks Limited, a Sydney, New South Wales establishment, recalls certain batch/lots of Hewlett-Packard 10bII+ Financial Calculators from the Australian marketplace due to the reported failure to provide the required warning information concerning so-called “Button” Batteries and consequential risks of choking, laceration, burns, GI tract laceration damage, bowel obstruction and/or sepsis, all serious health and safety hazards requiring immediate medical intervention to minimize pain and suffering as well as prevent life-changing injury.
ACCC: https://rb.gy/35bcm
Direct link: https://www.productsafety.gov.au/recalls/officeworks-limited-%E2%80%94-hp-10bii-financial-calculator
Additional information:
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (“ACCC”) reports the following Financial Calculators are subject to this recall:
Filed under: ACCC, Burn or scald hazard, Children, Choking or asphyxiation hazard, Home & Residential, Ingestion hazard | Tagged: ACCC, ACCC PRA number: 2023/19791, Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, batteries, battery, burns hazard, button batteries, child choking hazard, children, choking hazard, coin batteries, death hazard, Financial Calculators, Hewlett-Packard, Hewlett-Packard 10bII+ Financial Calculators, infants, ingestion hazard, ingestion hazards, Officeworks Limited, oral injury, Recalls Direct RIN: 17177-2023, Suffocation hazards | Leave a comment »