Pottery Barn · Recalled
CPSC, Pottery Barn Announce Recall to Issue Important Safety Warning for Halloween House Tealight Holders
Using a plastic tealight in the turret may cause the tealight to flare up, presenting a fire hazard. Only metal tealight holders should be used.
- Units
- 5,400
- Reports
- —
- Injuries
- —
- Deaths
- 0
- Price
- $40
- Remedy
- See notice
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Affected
The Halloween House is all black in color with wire-web windows, mesh rooftops and a brick-front exterior. The house is made of metal and measures 14.5 inches in height. The base of the house is a thin flat piece of metal surrounded by a black wire metal fence. The house holds four tealights on the bottom floor and one inside the turret. "Made In China" is written on a sticker on the bottom of the house.
The file
- Sold at
- Pottery Barn retail stores nationwide, from July 2003 through September 2003, for about $40
- Product type
- Candles & Candle Holders
- Made in
- Taiwan
- Recalled by
- Pottery Barn, of San Francisco, Calif.
Incident log
None reported.
What the notice says to do
Consumers should go to their Pottery Barn store with the purchase receipt, if available, to receive a complimentary set of metal tealights and a warning sticker to place on the item for future users, that states: "Warning - Do not use plastic tealights. Use only with metal tealights."
Pottery Barn for recorded information anytime at (888) 922-9245.
Recall notice published by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. This site is independent: always confirm on the official notice before acting.
Notice first dated OCT 02 2003; last revised JAN 03 2025.