VIZIO Recalls to Repair 39- and 42-Inch E-Series Flat Panel Televisions Due to Risk of Tip Over

Recall Insight

This CPSC action (record #14251) was formally reported on August 6, 2014. It is classified under Moderate severity, with a current status of Active. AmTRAN Technology Company Ltd., of Taipei City, Taiwan is listed as the recalling firm. Federal records indicate About 245,000 units are affected, a scale large enough to require multi-state distribution tracking.

The documented reason for this recall is: The stand assembly can fail and cause the television to tip over unexpectedly, posing a risk of impact injury to the consumer. Distribution information was not included in the agency filing, so consumers should assume broad potential exposure until the firm publishes point-of-sale details. The remedy documented by the agency is: Consumers using the stand assembly should immediately detach the stand, place the television in a safe location and contact VIZIO for a replacement stand assembly. Consumers with wall-mounted televis… — consumers holding this product should act on that instruction rather than relying on general guidance.

To put this record in context, PlainRecalls indexes 83,949 recalls across the FDA, CPSC, NHTSA and USDA FSIS going back to 1995. Within the same product category, the database holds 6 closely related recalls, of which 6 were also issued by CPSC. That clustering is a signal — repeated actions in a narrow category often indicate a systemic quality-control issue, a supplier-wide contamination, or a design defect that has propagated across product lines. This recall is roughly 12 years old; older recalls can remain relevant because many units enter resale, rental, and secondary-market channels where the original warning never reaches the end user. Always cross-check the recall number against the official agency page before relying on any summary.