Federal safety records show what happens when a recalled lithium-ion power bank stays in circulation: 28 additional consumer reports of overheating, expanding or catching fire after the original recall notice went out, including one case in which a woman died of her burn injuries and another in which a charger ignited aboard an aircraft.
The disclosure sits in a Consumer Product Safety Commission notice reannouncing the recall of Casely wireless portable power banks, model E33A. That reannouncement was posted on April 16 of this year, not this week. The reason it matters now is that regulators keep issuing new power bank recalls, most recently on September 3, and the Casely file is the clearest public record of what accumulates in the months after a household ignores one.
