Loctek Recalls Fleximouts Overhead Garage Storage Racks Due to Impact Injury Hazard
Home product recall 22-171. Announced by CPSC on Jun 23, 2022.
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The short answer
Announced by CPSC on Jun 23, 2022. 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?
One of the U-shaped buckles on the supporting cables can fail, posing an impact injury hazard to the user or bystander if the rack falls.
CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.
What should you do?
Consumers should immediately unload all items from the racks and contact the firm for a free repair kit. The repair kit includes the instructional video link and written instructions on adding additional support to the storage rack. Loctek is contacting all known purchasers.
CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.
- What the company offers to fix a recalled product or vehicle: a repair, a replacement or a refund, as the recall notice says. For a vehicle, dealers make the safety repair free. Follow the notice’s own steps, or contact the company it names. Source: CPSC; NHTSA (49 U.S.C. 30120).: repair.
- How to reach the firm: Loctek toll-free at 855-585-5618 anytime, by email at contact@fleximounts.com or online at fleximounts.com and click on the button near the bottom center labeled “Recalls” or go to https://www.fleximounts.com/recalls for more information.
Which ones are recalled?
This recall involves FLEXIMOUNTS Overhead Garage Storage Racks with model GL44B. The model number GL44B is printed on the box and there is a label with the brand FLEXIMOUNTS on the product. The recalled height adjustable steel racks attach to the ceiling, are black, measure 4 feet by 4 feet and have U-shaped buckle hardware.
About 17,500 units, as CPSC gives them.
FLEXIMOUNTS Overhead Garage Storage Racks.
CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.
CPSC’s photos
CPSC shows 5 photos on its notice. Hearth Record doesn’t copy them; each opens on cpsc.gov.
- Recalled FLEXIMOUNTS Overhead Garage Storage Racks
- Recalled FLEXIMOUNTS Overhead Garage Storage Racks
- Recalled FLEXIMOUNTS Overhead Garage Storage Racks label
- Location of brand name label on the recalled FLEXIMOUNTS Overhead Garage Storage Racks
- Location of the U-Shaped buckle on the recalled FLEXIMOUNTS Overhead Garage Storage Racks
Who made and sold it?
- Imported by Loctek Inc., Livermore, California.
- Online at amazon.com, fleximounts.com, wayfair.com, ebay.com, walmart.com, home depot.com and at Home Depot stores nationwide from October 2020 through April 2022 for about $230.
- Made in Vietnam, as the notice gives it.
CPSC, Recalls API. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.
Was anyone hurt?
The firm has received 18 reports of the U-shaped buckles on the supporting cables failing and the storage racks falling from the garage ceiling. No injuries have been reported.
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.
Hearth Record wrote these lines.
Sources
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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.
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.