Recall Register

Omnidirectional Cb Antennas Recalled by Jo Gunn Enterprises

CPSC recall 86042. Recall date: . Last publish date of the CPSC notice: .

Hazard, in the words of CPSC

Electrocution/Electric Shock

CPSC recall 86042 has the recall date 9 Jul 1986. The notice names the firm Jo Gunn Enterprises. The CPSC record gives no number of units. This register puts the recall under the hazard Electric shock. CPSC gives the product type Antennas.

Federal law prohibits any person from selling products subject to a Commission ordered recall or a voluntary recall undertaken in consultation with the CPSC.

CPSC publishes these words. Source: CPSC recall notices, section About the U.S. CPSC, read on . The hazard, the remedy and the incident text on this site are the words of the CPSC recall notice. Newest CPSC recall on the register: .

More of the notice

The hazard and the remedy are at the top of the page. Each quotation is the text of CPSC.

CPSC recall 86042: incidents, units, products and firms
UnitsThe CPSC record gives no number
Description
Omnidirectional Cb Antennas Recalled by Jo Gunn Enterprises NEWS from CPSC U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Office of Information and Public Affairs Washington, DC 20207 FOR RELEASE July 9, 1986 Release # 86-42 Jo Gunn Enterprises Recalls Omnidirectional Cb Antennas Washington, D.C. -- In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Jo Gunn Enterprises, Ethelsville, Alabama is voluntarily recalling five models of its omnidirectional CB base station antennas. These are Model 100, Model 200, Son of A Gunn, Hillbilly and Pistol. If contact is made by the antennas with an electrical power line while being installed or taken down, the antennas have the potential for severe or fatal shock. The CPSC is not aware of any injuries or deaths involving the Jo Gunn Omnidirectional CB Antennas. About 500 antenna-related electrocutions have been estimated to have occurred since 1976 as a result of CB antennas are being put up or taken down. The CPSC investigation revealed that the five models of omnidirectional CB antennas fail to comply with the agency's mandatory safety standard and labeling requirements. The standard is intended to reduce the electrocution hazard if…
ProductJo Gunn Hillbilly Omnidirectional CB Antennas, Antennas
ProductJo Gunn Omnidirectional CB Antennas
ProductJo Gunn Pistol Omnidirectional CB Antennas
ProductJo Gunn Son of A Gunn Omnidirectional CB Antennas
ManufacturerJo Gunn Enterprises

Recall notice: The page that CPSC publishes for one recall of a consumer product. It states the product, the hazard, the remedy and the incidents.

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.

Remedy: What the manufacturer or the firm does about a recalled product. The agency record states the remedy of each recall.

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

The recall in context

Units in this recall
not givenMedian of 1986: not given
CPSC recalls of 1986
46
Recalls of 1986 with one of the same hazards
4%
Recalls of 1986 in the category Antennas
4%
Recalls on the register that name Jo Gunn Enterprises
1

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. CPSC recall 86042. https://recallregister.com/product/4647-omnidirectional-cb-antennas-recalled-by-jo-gunn-enterprises/. Source: CPSC Recall Retrieval Web Services. Data through .

Sources

Source
US Consumer Product Safety Commission
Licence
US government work, public domain
Data retrieved
30 Sep 2026
Newest CPSC recall on the register
24 Sep 2026

The CPSC notice is the authority. The hazard names come from the hazard text of CPSC. The category is the product type that CPSC gives. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Does CPSC recall 86042 report injuries?
The CPSC record of recall 86042 has no incident or injury text.