Saddleback Leather luggage
1 report to CPSC, the latest made May 4, 2014. A report isn’t a recall.
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At a glance
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- 1report to CPSC
- May 4, 2014the latest report was made
- May 4, 2014the earliest
- 1with the company’s comments
- Brand
- Saddleback Leather
- Maker
- Saddleback Leather CompanyMakers, importers or sellers, as the reports name them
- Product
- LuggageCPSC’s product type: Luggage (code 1623), in Clothing and Accessories: Luggage
By month
The numbers, as a table
| Month | Reports |
|---|---|
| May 2014 | 1 |
How badly anyone was hurt
- Hurt, no treatment 1 CPSC: Injury, No First Aid or Medical Attention Received
As each report says it, in short words; CPSC’s own words are under each.
The reports, as CPSC published them
Reports people made to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. CPSC publishes each one after sending it to the company named, and doesn’t guarantee they’re accurate. A report isn’t a recall.
Each report is the words of the person who made it, as CPSC published them. The company’s comments, where CPSC published any, are set apart as the company’s own.
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Hurt, no treatment Made May 4, 2014, sent to the company May 13, 2014, published by CPSC Jun 4, 2014
The product, in the report: leather satchel with shoulder strap. This is the previous style to the one currently sold by Saddleback Leather Co. I believe. However, the same problem can/does apply to probably any other bag sold by Saddleback with a shoulder strap. Date of purchase is estimated since I have a number of these bags (all bought directly from Saddleback); straps have disconnected numerous times on all bags - this is the first time I was hurt in the process.
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.
- Model
- large satchel
- Bought from
- Saddleback Leather Co.
- Bought
- May 1, 2012, about then
- Where
- Lewiston, Maine: Home/
Apartment/ Condominium - Who was involved
- Age 44, Female
- The reporter’s relation to them
- Self
- As this report names them
- Brand Saddleback Leather, made or sold by Saddleback Leather Company
- How badly, in CPSC’s words
- Injury, No First Aid or Medical Attention Received
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, SaferProducts.gov public database export.
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