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CPSC, Guth Lighting Announce Recall of Lighting Fixtures

Home product recall 04-526. Announced by CPSC on Dec 18, 2003.

CPSC’s own notice, on cpsc.gov

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The short answer

Announced by CPSC on Dec 18, 2003. Copied from CPSC on Oct 19, 2026.

Every line below is in CPSC’s own words, with its source beside it.

What’s wrong with it?

The lamp can fall out of the lamp socket and strike somebody standing or walking beneath the light fixture, posing a laceration risk if the lamp breaks.

Source:

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

What should you do?

Affected owners will be provided with a retention plate to be installed over the lamps to hold them in place. Guth Lighting and their distributors are contacting purchasers directly about this recall program.

Source:

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

  • How to reach the firm: For questions or additional information contact Guth Lighting at (314) 533-3200 between 8 a.m. and 4:45 p.m. CT Monday through Friday or at customerservice@guthlighting.com

Which ones are recalled?

The light fixtures measure 22 inches in diameter and are labeled “GUTH LIGHTING, ENVIROGUARD LOW MOUNT” with the catalog number printed on a label on the light fixture. Light fixtures included in the recall are Prismatic Acrylic (ELP), Open Damp (O), 22 inch (2), all reflectors (1-6), all ballast cover types (1-4), 8-lamp-42-watt tube (842T), 120-volt (1) models. The catalog numbers will be shown as ELP-O 2 - (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6) (1, 2, 3 or 4) 842 T-1.

1,850 units, as CPSC gives them.

Enviroguard 22-inch-diameter Low Mount Open Lighting Fixture.

Source:

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

CPSC’s photos

CPSC shows 2 photos on its notice. Hearth Record doesn’t copy them; each opens on cpsc.gov.

Who made and sold it?

  • Made by Guth Lighting (division, JJI Lighting Group), of St Louis, Mo.
  • Lighting and electrical supply distributors nationwide, from January 1999 through October 2003, for about $350.
  • Made in United States, as the notice gives it.
Source:

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

Was anyone hurt?

Guth has received reports of about 50 lamps falling from the lamp socket. No injuries have been reported.

Source:

CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.

What the record doesn’t say

  • The notice lists no UPCs, so check the model, the description and the photos.
  • The notice lists no model numbers in a field of their own; its description may give them.
  • How many have been returned or fixed isn’t in the notice.
Source:

Hearth Record wrote these lines.

Sources

  • U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Recalls API.

    Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain (U.S. Government work). CPSC asks to be credited, and that no endorsement be implied.

Source:

Recalls of kids’ and home products are from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). CPSC does not endorse Hearth Record. Copied on Oct 19, 2026.

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