Toy Telephone Sets Recalled by Montgomery Ward
CPSC recall 79064. Recall date: . Last publish date of the CPSC notice: .
Hazard, in the words of CPSC
Burn - Not Fire-Related
CPSC recall 79064 has the recall date 9 Jan 1979. The notice names a person as the firm, and this site does not show the name. The CPSC record gives no number of units. This register puts the recall under 2 hazards. The first is Fire. CPSC gives the product type Toy Telephones.
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| Units | The CPSC record gives no number |
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| Description | Toy Telephone Sets Recalled by Montgomery Ward NEWS from CPSC U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Office of Information and Public Affairs Washington, DC 20207 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 9, 1979 Release # 79-064 Montgomery Ward Recalls 20,000 Toy Telephone Sets WASHINGTON, D.C. (Nov. 9) -- Montgomery Ward is recalling approximately 20,000 toy telephone sets offered for sale through its mail-order catalog, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission today announced. The phone sets were imported from Yugoslavia and are very similar to the toy telephones recalled last month by another U.S. firm. The sets include two battery-operated toy telephones connected by means of a detachable cord. The two-prong plugs at each end of the cord so closely resemble genuine electrical plugs that children may try to force them into household sockets, thereby receiving severe shocks or burns. While Montgomery Ward has received no consumer complaints of injuries from the cords, CPSC staff reports that an 8-year-old girl was burned earlier this year when she forced a plug from a similar phone set (which was distributed by another company) into a wall electrical outlet. The sets are ivory in… |
| Product | Mehanotehnika toys telephone sets, Toy Telephones |
| Firm | The CPSC notice gives the name of a person as the firm. This site does not show the names of persons. |
| Made in | Yugoslavia |
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The recall in context
- Units in this recall
- not givenMedian of 1979: not given
- CPSC recalls of 1979
- 33
- Recalls of 1979 with one of the same hazards
- 36%
- Recalls of 1979 in the category Toy Telephones
- 6%
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Recall Register. CPSC recall 79064. https://recallregister.com/product/3991-toy-telephone-sets-recalled-by-montgomery-ward/. Source: CPSC Recall Retrieval Web Services. Data through .
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- Data retrieved
- 30 Sep 2026
- Newest CPSC recall on the register
- 24 Sep 2026
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Questions
- Does CPSC recall 79064 report injuries?
- The CPSC record of recall 79064 has no incident or injury text.
- Where was the product made?
- The CPSC notice gives:
Yugoslavia