Luggage

78YOM HX R INGUINAL HERNIA PRESENT TO ED C/O R GROIN PX.2WK AGO PT WAS CARRYING LUGGAGE IN THE AIRPORT HAD SUDDEN INCREASE IN PX/SWELLING.SINCE HAS AN INCREASED BULGE IN R GROIN,SEVERE PX.NO SYSTEMIC SX'S.PCP REFERRED TO EDDX:NON-RECURRENT UNILATERAL INGUINAL HERNIA W/O OBSTRUCTION/GANGRENE

39 YOM C/O LEFT SIDE CHEST PAIN AFTER CARRYING HEAVY LUGGAGE FROM AIRPORT. DX: CHEST PAIN

69 YOF WITH LEFT-SIDED CHEST PAIN WORSENING OVER THE LAST 2 DAYS. PATIENTLY RECENTLY FLEW BACK FROM ***. SHE MAY HAVE PULLED SOMETHING LIFTING HER LUGGAGE. DX CHEST PAIN

37YOF WAS LIFTING HEAVY SUITCASE DURING RECENT TRAVEL WHEN SHE FELT PAIN ACROSS CHEST DX:CHEST WAS STRAIN

56YOF, C/O UPPER EXTREMITY PAIN, UNSURE IF SHE PULLED MUSCLE WHILE LIFTING SUITCASE ON BUS, C/O LEFT FLANK PAIN DX: UTI, CERVICAL MUSCLE STRAIN, THORACIC MUSCLE STRAIN

29YOM WAS REMOVING LUGGAGE FROM A PLANE AT THE AIRPORT AND JAMMED LEFT MIDDLE FINGER DX: STRAINED FINGER

25YOF WITH FRACTURED FINGER HANDLING HER SUITCASE DX: FRACTURED FINGER

48YOM WHO IS HOMELESS WITH FINGER PAIN AFTER LIFTING HEAVY SUITCASE DX: ENCOUNTER FOR MED SCREENING EXAM

63YOM,SHOULDER,NECK PAIN AFTER PULLING OUT STUFF OVER HEAD,FELT PAIN,REMOVED HEAVY LUGGAGE OUT OF OVERHEAD COMPARTMENT,DX:SHOULDER SPRAIN

40YOF WITH SHOULDER PAIN FROM LIFTING A SUITCASE DX: SHOULDER PAIN

66YOF PRESENTS WITH ANKLE PAIN AFTER TWISTING HER ANKLE WHILE STEPPING DOWN FROM A LADDER WHILE PULLING LUGGAGE OUT OF HER CLOSET. DX: FRACTURE OF ANKLE

52YOF PRESENTS AFTER BEING HIT IN THE HEAD WITH LUGGAGE. DX: ACUTE POST TRAUMATIC HEADACHE

I own a Swiss Alps soft side suit case (red) 24" x16" x 9". The handle on the top has a metal strap enclosed in a soft material cover. The metal strap cut thru the cover because it has a razor sharp edge. I did cut myself which is why I even noticed. This is a very unsafe factory defect. I do have pictures.

I was using this product for the first time on Wed., June 8, 2022: https://www.briggs-riley.com/products/large-expandable-spinner-2 I do not know the manufacture date but was required to fill in something on the form, so I put 4/2/2022. We are U.S. citizens and bought and used this in the U.S. The company is headquartered in the U.S. We have traveled a lot, as much as 180 days a year before the pandemic, and we have always each taken a large expandable suitcase and a carry-on suitcase and ridden on numerous escalators with them over the years, with the expandable suitcase fully expanded. I have ridden on countless escalators with other similar luggage in countless countries, never having the slightest problem. I'm strong and healthy. However, with this newest suitcase, the wheel base expands as the suitcase expands, so I found myself on an up escalator near baggage claim at SEA (the Seattle, Washington airport), suddenly realizing the back two wheels would not fit on the escalator riser, so they were hanging over the edge, causing the 43-pound suitcase to tilt backwards. Then the suitcase pulled me backwards so that I fell and was on my back, with my feet closer to the top of the escalator, and my head closer to the bottom, bumping down the sharp metal stairs, with nothing protecting my head, neck, spine or any other part of me, and I fell down several stairs this way. Had there been nobody behind me, I would have kept falling, ending up in a heap at the bottom. I'm not sure if I would have lived through such a fall, or if I had lived, if I would have sustained head, neck or back or other injuries or if I'd have been capable of walking again. Had there been a crowded escalator, or one with small children or with parents holding infants or with elderly people, my fall might have set off a cascade of injuries. But instead, there was only one person behind me, and he happened to be an able-bodied man in his 30s, who dropped his own suitcase, letting it fall

I had ordered a set of Heys spinner luggage from QVC shopping network. After it arrived a few days later, and I opened up the box, I began to get a headache and sore throat from the strong chemical smell of the luggage. I moved the luggage to a downstairs room. I had to return the luggage to QVC the following weekend since I did not want to put my clothing in the luggage for fears it would absorb the strong chemical odor.

THe handle on my Pelican luggage (Pelican BA30 Elite Vacationer Luggage ) broke and I ended up sliding my finer on a metal edge that was exposed requiring 5 stitches.

On 5/2/2014, I was home for lunch and preparing for an overnight trip. I picked up my two Saddleback leather satchels (medium and large sized) by the shoulder straps to take them out to my car. As I got the strap for the large bag to shoulder height and prepared to place the strap on my shoulder, the heavy metal clasp that connects the strap to the bag disconnected from the side of the bag facing forward. This caused a weighted pendulum effect, swinging the strap up from the bag towards my face, with the metal clasp violently striking me in the teeth and loosening my four upper front teeth and causing them to hurt badly. I have a number of Saddleback bags, and have had the clasps disconnect a number of times in the past due to the design, but never had the strap strike me before. It has always been clear to me since the first incident that these straps need to have more than a latching mechanism - they need a latching AND locking mechanism. However, it never occurred to me that the disconnecting clasp issue could cause bodily harm in addition to possibly damaging the contents of the bags. I no longer feel safe picking up my bags as intended as a result of this. I contacted Saddleback via their web contact form that I have used in the past and previously gotten replies in a couple hours. They have not replied in the two days that have passed. In the meantime, in order to use my bags and feel I can do so safely, I have tied the clasps to the bags with para-cord. I do no feel this is a good long term solution since these bags are expensive and supposedly warrantied for 100 years. I had also never thought it was possible to be beat up by a bag before, but now I know it can happen with these bags.

Caller is reporting that the handle of luggage while pulling down to the suitcase level pinches the user, she stated that her 4 and 5year old grandchildren was pinched by the handled causing blood blisters. 3/2017 The company was contacted and they advised her that the luggage was too old for them to assist her. She stated that they had been multiple incidents since 2015. Caller feels that the design of this luggage is unsafe and should be reported.

I purchased a brief case from Kenneth Cole in November 2011 (Model No. 52205). After purchasing the bag, I noticed when using the bag's shoulder strap, the metal hooks at the end of the shoulder strap would ocassionally come unhooked from the metal holes on the side of the bag. This would almost always happen after the shoulder strap had some slack in it, and would happen when the shoulder strap was being used and supporting the full weight of the bag, so that when the strap did come uhnooked, the bag would fall to the ground, and the shoulder strap would whip backwards frequently narrowly missing my face. On October 18, 2011, I was carrying the bag using the shoulder strap, and the strap came unhooked as had happened before, however, this time, the strap hit me in the eye. I sustained a black eye and nearly avoided a more serious injury to the eye itself.

I purchased a set of Hey luggage from Sam's club on Thursday. It emitted a horrible chemical smell upon opening. On Saturday I travelled and opened my suitcase in my hotel. That night, my throat kept closing up as I slept. I was fighting to breathe, thinking they'd used some new chemical in the hotel, as I travel often and never had this problem before. I ended up taking allergy medicine and sleeping with a wet towel over my head. I didn't figure out it was the luggage til the next morning. When I arrived at home, I put the bags in my guest room open, hoping they'd air out in a day or two. That night, the same thing happened in my bedroom, I could not breathe. I finally realized that my pajamas had been in the suitcase and now had absorbed this chemical. Once I threw them in the laundry the problem was solved. I had opened the box the cases came in, in my mother's bedroom and she complained all day about her allergies. I didn't pay much attention until this all happened to me. I now connect her exposure from the protective wrapping for the cases that I threw in her trash can. I don't know what chemical is being used either in the fabric, the plastic or the glue but it almost killed me and could have done worse to my 80 year old mother.