The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a recall Thursday on over 1 million Igloo rolling coolers, according to a press release. Lids on the Igloo 90 Qt. Flip & Tow Rolling Coolers have been responsible for at least 12 fingertip amputations, bone fractures, and lacerations, according to the regulatory agency.
The Igloo coolers have been sold from January 2019 through January 2025 and retailed for between $80 and $140. The recall includes about 23,000 coolers in Mexico and 47,000 coolers sold in Canada, though the Canada Consumer Product Safety Agency reports on its website that no injuries have been reported in the country.
The recall involves all 90 Qt. Flip & Tow Rolling Coolers made before January 2024. The date the cooler was manufactured is printed on the bottom in a circular pattern. There’s an arrow pointing to the month it was created and the last two digits of the year it was made are inside the circle, as you can see below in the graphic provided by CPSC.
The coolers were sold in several different combinations of body and lid colors and the specific model numbers for all the recalled coolers can be found on the CPSC website. The model numbers can also be found on a label underneath the cooler.
The coolers have been available for purchase at Costco, Target, Academy, Dick’s, and many other physical retail stores nationwide. Online retailers include Amazon.com, Igloocoolers.com, and plenty of other websites as well.
“The tow handle can pinch consumers’ fingertips against the cooler, posing fingertip amputation and crushing hazards,” the CPSC said in a statement published online. “Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled coolers and contact Igloo for a free replacement handle.”
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE team have been taking a chainsaw to federal agencies in recent weeks. But there’s no sign that they’ve made any cuts at the Consumer Product Safety Commission. At least not yet.
It seems like only a matter of time before Musk and his idiot band of DOGE programmers set their sites on regulatory agencies like CPSC, which helps alert consumers whenever a product is hurting people, whether it’s Stanley mugs or Anker speakers.
And things are likely to get even worse for public health now that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was confirmed as Health Secretary on Thursday. It’s a brand new world, as the billionaires have taken control and hope to dismantle every regulatory guardrail built to keep Americans safe over the past century. Food, product, and drug recalls are the kind of thing that the public at large may not even notice once they’re gone.
After all, 12 people breaking bones and losing their fingertips to a bad cooler lid is really quite a small number in the grand scheme of things. Just as one death and a few dozen hospitalizations from tainted onions at McDonald’s would be something that flew under the radar if there wasn’t a public health and safety infrastructure to warn us. The world is about to be a much more dangerous place. But most people will actually have no idea.
