Hewlett Packard (HP) issued a recall of 50,000 laptop and mobile workstation ithium-ion batteries for HP notebook computers and mobile workstations batteries due to a possible fire risk.
According to a Jan. 4 recall alert from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, the laptop and mobile workstations’ lithium-ion batteries “can overheat, posing fire and burn hazards.”
HP reported they’d received eight reports of battery packs overheating, melting or charring. From three of these incidents, a total of $4,500 in property damage occurred. And, one person received a first-degree burn to their hand.