Millions of potentially faulty sprinkler
heads https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhxCu6cQBMs in offices, schools and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhxCu6cQBMs homes are expected to be recalled
this week, USA Today reported today.
It said the recall, expected from the Consumer Product Safety
Commission o n Thursday, will cover more than 30 million GB model
sprinkler heads made by Central Sprinkler.
The heads are equipped with O-ring water seals that have been
found to corrode, which could cause the sprinklers to fail during a
fire, the paper said.
It noted that in 1998 the federal safety agency ordered the
company, based in Lancaster, Pa., to replace 8.4 million sprinkler
heads marketed under the Omega brand and ordered it to pay a $1.3
million fine.
The paper said Underwriters Laboratories, an independent testing
company, has cited at least two fires during which GB sprinkler
heads like the one to be recalled this week had failed.
It said neither the http://www.allaboutlawns.com/ Consumer Product Safety Commission nor Tyco
International, which acquired Central Sprinkler in 1999, would
comment on the expected recall.
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