Recall: Custom Elevator Recalls Residential Elevators Due to Child Entrapment Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death to Young Children; One Death Reported

Description: This recall involves select Custom Elevator residential elevators with either hydraulic drives (HYD) or winding drum drives (WD). The Custom Elevator brand name is located on the controllers and hydraulic power unit. The elevators are used in consumers' homes.

Name of product: Residential elevators

Manufacturer: Custom Elevator, of Plumsteadville, Pennsylvania

Hazard: Young children can become entrapped in the space between the exterior landing (hoistway) door and the interior elevator car door or gate if there is a hazardous gap between the doors and suffer serious injuries or death when the elevator is called to another floor.

Remedy: Consumers should keep young children away from the recalled residential elevators and contact Custom Elevator for instructions on how to measure for space guards to correct any hazardous gap. Space guards will be provided free of charge and assistance with space guard installation will be provided upon request.

Recall date: September 29, 2022

Incidents/Injuries: In July 2021, a 7-year-old child died in a vacation home in North Carolina after becoming entrapped in a residential elevator.

Sold At: Custom Elevators sold the units to elevator contactors nationwide from 2003 through August 2022 for between $10,000 and $25,000, excluding installation costs charged by third party installation companies.

Manufactured in: United States

Consumer contact: Custom Elevator toll-free at 888-443-2800 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, email at spaceguards@customelevatorinc.com or online at www.homeelevator-recall.com/customelevator or www.customelevatorinc.com and click on "Important Recall Notice" for more information and for those specific elevators subject to the recall.

Recall number: 22-235