Yoto Announces Recall Of Yoto Mini Speakers For Children Due To Battery Fire Risk

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recently announced the recall of Yoto mini speakers. According to the recall, the speaker’s lithium-ion battery can overheat and catch fire, posing burn and fire hazards to consumers.

Consumers are advised to immediately stop using the recalled speakers, take them away from their children, and contact Yoto to receive a free battery replacement kit. Consumers should request the battery replacement kit if they have already received the smart cable from the April 2024 recall. Consumers should dispose of the lithium-ion batteries in accordance with their local and state regulations and not throw them away in the trash.

According to the recall, Yoto has received 9 reports from consumers in the U.S. and three reports from consumers in the UK of the speaker overheating and/or melting. Thus far, no injuries have been reported.

Lithium-ion battery fires and personal injury law 

In 2017, the Consumer Product Safety Commission released a report outlining how there had been at least 25,000 cases of battery fires involving over 400 different types of electronic devices over the last decade. Over the past seven years, that number has only grown. In many cases, the CPSC recalls products with defective lithium-ion batteries.

Fires caused by lithium-ion batteries pose a serious danger to consumers. They spread quickly and are challenging to put out. They endanger the safety and lives of anyone holding the device as well as their property. Anyone who suffers harm from using a product with a lithium-ion battery can file a personal injury lawsuit under Florida law.

Grounds for filing a lithium-ion battery lawsuit in Florida 

Product liability claims involve three types of accusations made against manufacturers. These include:

• The product was intrinsically defective
• The product had a manufacturing defect
• The manufacturer failed to warn the consumer about a known danger

You can file a product liability lawsuit on any of these grounds in Florida. Often, when it comes to lithium-ion batteries, there was a manufacturing defect that helped to cause the battery to become unstable. In some cases, the design of the product itself caused the battery to become unstable.

What constitutes a manufacturing defect? 

When it comes to the production of lithium-ion batteries, there are several known manufacturing defects that can contribute to the battery’s instability. These include:

• Materials contamination (also known as foreign inclusion)
• Electrolytes drying around the electrodes
• Improper arrangement of constituent parts
• Deflected electrodes
• Use of inferior quality separators
• Blurs on the tab
• Collector de-laminations
• Cathode or anode impurities

These are the major concerns involving the production of lithium-ion batteries. Because these issues occur during the manufacturing process, they are considered manufacturing defects. If you are injured by a defective battery, you can file a product liability lawsuit in Florida.

Talk to a Florida Product Liability Lawyer Today 

Halpern, Santos & Pinkert represent the interests of those who have been injured by a defective consumer product. Call our Florida personal injury lawyers today to schedule an appointment, and we can begin investigating your claim immediately.