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White-Rodgers is recalling about 740,000 home heating and cooling thermostats in the United States and 403,000 in Canada.
The alkaline batteries used in the thermostat can leak onto the circuit board posing a fire hazard, the company and U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said. No injuries have been reported.
The firm has received seven reports of burn damage to the thermostat, including two involving minor property damage.
This recall involves four models of White-Rodgers digital thermostats. The thermostats are white with blue lighted screens and have one of the following names printed on the front of them: “COMFORTSENTRY,” “DICO,” “Emerson,” “Frigidaire,” “Maytag,” “Nutone,” “Partners Choice,” “Rheem,” “Ruud,” “Unico,” “Water Furnace,” “Westinghouse,” “White-Rodgers,” or “Zonefirst.”
The thermostats have a battery door on the top left corner. There are three or four buttons to the right and also below the thermostat screen. Recalled thermostats don’t show a battery icon on the left side of the blue lighted screen. Consumers don’t find the battery icon there, they should contact White-Rodgers to receive a free repair or a replacement thermostat.
The thermostats were sold at heating, ventilation, and air conditioning equipment manufacturers and distributors and at hardware retailers nationwide from January 2006 through December 2013 for about $30 to $70.
For more information, call White-Rodgers at 888-624-1901 from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. CT Monday through Friday or visit www.white-rodgers.com and click on “White-Rodgers 1F8x-04xx Thermostat Recall” at the lower left corner of the homepage.
For details on other recalls, see www.recalls.gov.
