{"id":57574,"date":"2025-07-11T18:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T18:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/57574\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T18:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T18:57:08","slug":"walmart-recalls-850000-water-bottles-after-two-consumers-suffer-vision-loss-from-ejecting-caps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/57574\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart recalls 850,000 water bottles after two consumers suffer vision loss from ejecting caps"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Walmart<\/a> is recalling about 850,000 stainless steel water bottles because the lid can \u201cforcefully eject\u201d and unexpectedly strike consumers \u2014 resulting in permanent vision loss for two people to date.<\/p>\n

The recall covers Walmart\u2019s \u201cOzark Trail 64 oz Stainless Steel Insulated Water Bottles,\u201d which have been sold at the chain\u2019s stores across the country since 2017. According to a notice<\/a> published by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on Thursday, these products pose \u201cserious impact and laceration hazards.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s because when a consumer attempts to open the bottles \u201cafter food, carbonated beverages or perishable beverages, such as juice or milk, are stored inside over time,\u201d the lid can eject forcefully, the CPSC notes.<\/p>\n

As of Thursday\u2019s announcement, Walmart had received three reports of consumers who were injured after being struck in the face by these lids when opening their bottles. And two of those people \u201csuffered permanent vision loss after being struck in the eye,\u201d the CPSC added.<\/p>\n

Consumers are urged to stop using the now-recalled Ozark Trail bottles \u2014 and contact Walmart for a full refund. Shoppers can also bring the products to their local Walmart store for that compensation.<\/p>\n

The bottles being recalled can also be identified by their model number, 83-662 \u2014 which doesn\u2019t appear on the product itself, but would show on packaging. The stainless-steel base is silver and the lid is a black, one-piece screw cap. There is also an Ozark Trail logo embedded on the side of the 64-ounce bottle.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press reached out to Walmart for further comments on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Walmart is recalling about 850,000 stainless steel water bottles because the lid can \u201cforcefully…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":57575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,57,1165,24129,61,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-57574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-general-news","10":"tag-lifestyle","11":"tag-product-recalls","12":"tag-u-s-news","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114836133822302475","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}