Ascender
Black Diamond · Index
- Country of origin
- United States
- Notifying country
- Austria
- Counterfeit
- No
Requirements breached
The rivets attaching the toothed cam to the ascender body may not have been fitted correctly. The cam and indeed the entire ascender may therefore become detached from the rope. There is also a risk that the rivets which attach the safety catch to the toothed cam have not been fitted correctly, thus increasing the risk that the ascender may become detached from the rope. If the ascender becomes detached from the rope, the user could fall from a height resulting in serious or fatal injury. The product does not comply with the Personal Protective Equipment Directive.
Measures taken
- Recall of the product from end users Voluntary measuresTaken by: ManufacturerIn force from: 13 April 2016
Product
- Description
- Climbing equipment: ascender
- Brand
- Model / type
- Batch
Original source
Data comes from the official Safety Gate system of the European Commission.
- Alert number
- A12/0594/16 ↗
- Weekly report
- Report-2016-020
- Published
- 11 May 2016
- Corrigendum
- 1) Notification A12/0165/16, published in Web Report-2016-007, has been modified further to additional information on the risk (NEW number: A11/0051/16). 2) Following a reassessment by the notifying authority, the risk level for the notification A12/1758/15 in Report 2016-001 has been changed. The notification is now published in the same report as A11/0049/16 in the section on products posing "Other risk levels".
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