Animal Traps

71YOM PRESENTS TO ED FOR WOUND INFECTION. P THAD A PUNCTURE WOUND FRO PIECE OF REBAR THAT WAS HOLDING A BEAVER TRAP IN PLACE. HAD INJURY ON DORSAL ASPECT OF RT HADN NEAR MCP JOINTS OF THE THIRD AND FOURTH FINGERS DX: CELLULITIS OF HAND RT

79 YOM FELL WHILE CARRYING A CAT IN A LIVE TRAP. DX: RIB PAIN

42YOM WAS RECOVERING FROM A PREVIOUS PARTIAL TEAR/SHOULDER PAIN WHEN HE WAS SETTING A MOUSE TRAP AND THE TRAP SPRUNG AND HE QUICKLY RETRACTED HIS RIGHT ARM DX: RIGHT SHOULDER SPRAIN OR STRAIN WITH SUSPECTED PARTIAL ROTATOR CUFF TEAR

9YOF PRESENT TO ED W/ R LOW LEG PX AFTER SHE PUT HER FOOT INTO A FOX TRAP.THE FOX TRAP DIDNT HAVE SHARP TEETH/SERRATED EDGES,NO BLEEDING OR LACS.AFTER GETTING FREE HAD DIFFICULTY WALKING,PX.DX:CONTUSIONS OF R LOW LEG

64YOF STS WITH A MOUSE BITE TO R MIDDLE FINGER WHEN FREEING THE MOUSE FROM A TRAP DX LWOT

49 YOM WAS USING AN ANIMAL TRAP TO CATCH CAT AND DROPPED IT WAS BITTEN BY CAT ON FOOT DX: CAT BITE

56YOM WITH DOG BITE TO THUMB, THE DOG WAS IN A TRAP AND THE PATIENT WAS BITTEN WHEN HE WAS RELEASING THE TRAP.DX: SINGLE DEEP ANIMAL BITE RIGHT THUMB.

61YOF WITH BITE FROM A MOUSE THAT SHE HAD CAUGHT IN A STICKY TRAP.DX: PUNCTURE WOUND LEFT THUMB.

79YOF WAS LETTING A RACCOON OUT OF A TRAP WHEN IT BITE HER ON THE LEFT THIRD FINGER DX:PUNCTURE TO FINGER

32YOF,MOUSE BITE TO FINGER CAUGHT IN MOUSE TRAP,TRYING TO REMOVE IT,BIT HER,DX:FINGER BITE

4YOM WAS ATTEMPTING TO GRAB A PACKET OF CHIPS AT HOME & A RAT EMERGED FROM NEARBY STICKY TRAP & BIT PTS RIGHT 5TH TOE, PT HAS AN ABRASION OF RIGHT 5TH TOE DX ANIMAL BITE, STREP THROAT EXPOSURE

79 YOF TRIPPED AND FELL YESTERDAY AFTER LOSING BALANCE AND STEPPED ONTO MOUSE TRAPS, HIT HEAD AND LEFT WRIST, DOES NOT TAKE BLOOD THINNERS, DX: LEFT WRIST CONTUSION, LEFT HAND CONTUSION

I baited and set traps and placed them in my utility room where I seen evidence of mice. I left the utility room and before long (from several minutes to an hour) heard a strange noise. Upon investigating I discovered that the traps had come apart and pieces of the traps were scattered around the area where traps had been left. If I had still been holding the trap in my hand and leaning over to put trap on floor I could have sustained an eye injury.

I baited and set traps and placed them in my utility room where I had seen evidence of mice. I left the utility room and before long (from several minutes to an hour) heard a strange noise. Upon investigating I discovered that the traps had come apart and pieces of the traps were scattered around the area where traps had been left. If I had still been holding the trap in my hand and leaning over to put trap on floor I could have sustained an eye injury.

In my apartment for the past 2 years, I set out a readily available pest control product called "Catchmaster", a small glue board, 4 to a package, which was very effective. The product, listed in many varieties on Amazon, is noted as being "non-toxic, home and family safe". However, I discovered that the chemical in the glue has been causing me a severe breathing problem. Not knowing for 2 years what was causing my shortness of breath, I was putting out more and more of this product around my apartment because it had great results, until I realized that the more of them I placed around my apartment, the more serious my breathing problem became. Having gradually found and removed all of the product that I had placed around my apartment, I continue to have residual chemical effects, mostly in my bedroom area.

This caller purchased rat traps around June 25th or June 26th, 2018 from retailer in [REDACTED] then came home and began setting them the next day. One of them snapped right after he set it and when he inspected it he saw that the staples were not set deeply enough for it to work properly. He set another trap that snapped while he was setting it and just missed his head as it went flying past it. He is reporting these traps as a severe injury hazard and would ask that CPSC inspect and recall them. There are no injuries being reported He reported these incidents to the manufacturer who is sending him three more rat traps. He states that the store where he purchased his has seven more of these defective traps and that other stores are also selling them which could result in someone being severely injured and he is asking that the stores become notified and told to remove them from the shelves. Caller asked that a note be placed advising that ACE Distributing should be contacted immediately and advised to inspect then remove any of these rat traps still on the shelves.

I am writing to notify you of a malfunction with a Tomcat wooden rat snap trap that caused me to suffer a serious eye injury. Monday June 6th just before 2pm, in my home, a set trap was about 10 feet away from me when the hammer tripped but not due to the trigger arm operating normally. Instead, the small metal U-shaped staple that holds the trigger arm came loose from the wooden base, which triggered the trap and shot the staple straight into my right eye. The trigger arm went flying in another direction; the trap basically blew up sending metal pieces flying around the room. It was a shocking, painful, and traumatic event in which I suffered deep lacerations to my inner eyelid, lacerations to my cornea, and damage to my pupil and globe. I lost vision completely. After being seen at the nearest hospital they transferred me to another hospital with more advanced equipment and an optometry specialist. He performed emergency surgery to repair the cuts in my eye, and I will have stitches in my eyeball for a few more weeks. At that time, we'll know how much of my vision will fully return. As we look closer at the trap, we are surprised to realize how insecure that staple is, it would be so much safer if it was longer and hammered down on the backside to secure it from coming loose and airborne with all the pressure of the springs behind it. My Father in Law has said that he's also had that u-shaped nail come out of a Tomcat trap before but he never found where it flew to, thankfully he was not injured like I was. I'm so interested to know if other consumers of this product have had that staple come loose, if so I hope that like my Father In Law that they were not hit directly with the staple, or the metal arm. I had no idea that these traps were capable of turning into projectile weapons, I'm still in shock this happened and feel so lucky that it wasn't one of my four children in the room who had been hit. I'm extremely concerned that there is a pretty major

There is, in my opinion, a strong risk of personal injury using a Havahart model 1085animal trap. Shame on me for trusting this Havahart trap. They have been in business for years. They had a good reputation until now. The trap consists of 3 different size holes: 1x7/8, 1/2x7/8, AND a 1x2. Now there are 2 columns of the later size running down each side right below the handle on top. Note the attached picture of my latest capture. It was able to extend its reach for 6". There is a trough dug out of the dirt along the bottom corner. Would you really want to put this on your deck? Grass would eventually recover in a week or so. Concrete would be best. Unfortunately, I don't have any. But wait that's not all. I don't kill the critter. I figure he's just trying to make a living like the rest of us. I take them on a 4-5 mile trip to release. So this trap probably weighs about 10 pounds. Say the coon weighs 20-25 pounds. Since the geniuses place the largest openings right below the handle, one then has to hold the 30-35 pounds straight out from your side, don't forget it has at least a 6" reach. Walk that way for 75 feet, then lift it up int your vehicle. I do have to get back to the gym. One more dandy little tidbit is they advertise proudly how there are no sharp edges inside the trap so it's safe for the animal. My question is what about my leg?

Product malfunctioned, causing a fire that burned a section of our home.

Friday, March 16, 2012 caller purchased T-Con Mouse Trap, set it up in his kitchen then after approximately an hour he heard a "snap", went to kitchen. No mouse in trap Bottom piece is round, 4" in diameter, Spindle in center comes up about 2", then a plastic top that goes over the spindle. Somehow the axle from the bottom part snapped and a quarter inch of the plastic shot up and caller found it a couple inches away from the rest of the trap. Model# 0261071 He is reporting as a safety hazard because if a curious child had been trying to see how it worked or got close to it for any reason could have lost an eye or been injured in another way when the plastic hit him or her. He believes that the plastic should be much tougher. UPDATE FROM SUBMITTER: A quarter inch of the vertical axle was found a couple of inches away but that was only half of the piece that had broken off. When the piece broke off it split vertically and a second piece was found on 31 March 2012 across the kitchen in a wicker basket on the opposite counter that is used to hold bags of onions. That second half was imbedded in the weave of the wicker and at first I thought it was a black spot on the wicker. I was able to pry it out. That piece had traveled more than 52 inches and I do not know how high above the counter the apex of the arc was.