Chain Saws: CPSC recalls in this category

18 CPSC recalls are in the product category Chain Saws. That is 0.2% of the 10,027 CPSC recalls on the register. The notices give about 437,276 units for these recalls. The median recall has 5,000 units.

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Newest recalls

The newest 18 of 18.

Newest CPSC recalls in the category Chain Saws
Date	Recall	Firm	Hazard	Units	CPSC number
14 Feb 2012	STIHL Recalls Chain Saws Due to Risk of Injury	STIHL	Impact injury	3,000	12108
23 Dec 2010	STIHL Inc. Recalls Chain Saws Due to Laceration Hazard	STIHL	Laceration	5,000	11080
30 Oct 2008	Homelite Consumer Products Announce Recall to Repair Chain Saws Due to Chain Brake Failure	Homelite Consumer Products	Laceration	370,000	09031
28 Nov 2006	MTD Southwest Inc. Recalls Troy-Bilt, Craftsman Chain Saws, Breaking Handles Pose Laceration Hazard	MTD Southwest	Laceration	76	07040
11 Jan 2006	CPSC, Stihl Inc. Announce Recall of Chain Saws	Stihl	Fire	23,500	06063
12 Sep 2005	CPSC, Makita U.S.A. Inc. Announce Recall of Chain Saws	Makita		3,400	05265
12 Sep 2005	CPSC, DOLMAR Power Products Announce Recall of Chain Saws	DOLMAR Power Products		1,300	05264
29 May 2003	CPSC, Stihl Inc. Announce Recall of Chain Saws	Stihl Inc., Virginia Beach, Va	Fire	13,000	03541
8 May 2003	CPSC, Homelite Announce Recall of Chainsaws	Homelite Consumer Products	Laceration	6,900	03124
13 Nov 2002	CPSC, Stihl Inc. Announce Recall of Chain Saws	Stihl	Fire	3,000	03037
9 Nov 2001	CPSC, Sears Announce Recall of Electric Chain Saws and Electric Edgers	Sears, Roebuck and Co	Electric shock	7,100	02504
21 Jun 2001	CPSC, Firms Announce Recall of Chain Saws and Child Table Seats	Stihl	Laceration	1,000	01175
8 Apr 1997	Chain Saws Recalled by Husqvarna	Husqvarna	Fire, Burn		97098
18 Feb 1997	Chain Saws Recalled by Stihl	Stihl	Fire, Burn		97070
27 Mar 1996	CPSC, Shindaiwa Announce Recall Of Backpack Blowers And Chain Saws	Shindaiwa	Fire, Burn		96087
30 Aug 1994	Stihl Recalls Certain Model Chain Saws	Stihl	Fire, Burn		94122
28 Aug 1986	Cs-500VL Chain Saw Recalled by Echo	Echo	Laceration		86053
5 Oct 1981	Chain Saws Recalled by McCulloch	McCulloch	Electric shock		81024

Hazard: The way a product can cause harm, in the words of the CPSC recall notice. This site also puts each recall under short hazard names.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Hazards

Chain Saws: recalls that name each hazard
Hazard		Recalls
Fire		7
Laceration		6
Burn		4
Electric shock		2
Other		2
Impact injury		1

Firms

Firms with a page, in the order of the number of recalls.

Recalls by year

CPSC recalls in the category Chain Saws, by the year of the recall date. The largest year is 2001, with 2 recalls.

Units in these recalls: 437,276
Median units of one recall: 5,000All CPSC recalls: 8,800
Share of all CPSC recalls on the register: 0.2%

Official channels

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Cite this page

Recall Register. Chain Saws: CPSC recalls in this category. https://recallregister.com/category/chain-saws/. Source: CPSC Recall Retrieval Web Services. Data through 29 Sep 2026.

Sources

Source: US Consumer Product Safety Commission
Licence: US government work, public domain
Data retrieved: 29 Sep 2026

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Questions

Which hazards do the recalls in the category Chain Saws have?: Fire: 7 recalls. Laceration: 6 recalls. Burn: 4 recalls.
What is the newest CPSC recall in the category Chain Saws?: CPSC recall 12108, with the recall date 14 Feb 2012. The CPSC title is: STIHL Recalls Chain Saws Due to Risk of Injury
Which firms have a page and a recall in the category Chain Saws?: 8 firms on this page. The list is in the order of the number of recalls and starts with Stihl, with 5.
Where does the category Chain Saws come from?: Chain Saws is a product type of CPSC. This site uses the type of the first product of a recall. Most records before 2010 have no product type.