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Yeti portable food or beverage coolers

3 reports to CPSC, the latest made Apr 7, 2024. A report isn’t a recall.

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At a glance

From SaferProducts.gov, released Oct 25, 2026.

  • 3reports to CPSC
  • Apr 7, 2024the latest report was made
  • Mar 9, 2023the earliest
  • 0with the company’s comments
Brand
Yeti
Maker
YETI Coolers, LLCMakers, importers or sellers, as the reports name them
Product
Portable food or beverage coolersCPSC’s product type: Portable Food or Beverage Coolers (code 3250), in Sports and Recreation: Outdoors & Camping

By month

2 reports from May 2023 to April 2024; the most in April 2024, 1. 1 earlier report, since March 2023, is in the table.
The numbers, as a table
Reports to CPSC by the month each was made, newest first
MonthReports
April 20241
June 20231
March 20231

How badly anyone was hurt

  • No one hurt 3 CPSC: Incident, No Injury

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.

Source:

CPSC, SaferProducts.gov public database export. Released Oct 25, 2026. Updated daily.

  1. No one hurt

    Made Apr 7, 2024, sent to the company Sep 11, 2024, published by CPSC Sep 25, 2024

    The product, in the report: Product Name: Yeti HOPPER M30 2.0 NAVY

    We have a Yeti cooler bag with the magnetic closure. It was not in use, but was inside our house. Our cat must have climbed in a closed behind him. He suffocated before we knew he was in there.

    Model
    HOPPER M30 2.0
    UPC
    888830133699
    Bought from
    Yeti website. It was a warranty replacement
    Bought
    Oct 17, 2022
    Where
    Denver, Colorado: Home/Apartment/Condominium
    Who was involved
    Unspecified
    The reporter’s relation to them
    Unspecified
    As this report names them
    Brand Yeti, made or sold by YETI Coolers, LLC
    How badly, in CPSC’s words
    Incident, No Injury
  2. No one hurt

    Made Jun 14, 2023, sent to the company Jun 20, 2023, published by CPSC Jul 12, 2023

    The product, in the report: Picnic Coolers

    Re: Safety Latches on Picnic Cooler Lids

    Dear Sirs and Madams:

    I am a retired engineer who worked for 23 years for the [REDACTED] in Wichita Kansas. During my time with [REDACTED](1967 through 1989) I was for several years the design engineering manager for thermal products (picnic coolers and jugs). In the early 1970’s the CPSC brought to our attention that the latches on all of our larger picnic coolers could be hazardous to small children. You might remember that at one time old, discarded refrigerators with solid latching doors became deadly traps for kids. View your publication [REDACTED].

    [REDACTED] had a proven, reliable latching system for all of our metal bodied, plastic lined coolers. We had never had one instance where a kid was injured by a [REDACTED]cooler and I personally did not believe that we posed a risk. We were building more than a million of this type of product annually. I traveled to DC to go before the CPSC and was instructed that we must change our designs.

    On returning from the DC meeting I ran a test with smaller children. We fixed several sizes of coolers so that each one had breathing holes and put these in a room with younger children and, without instructions (to the kids), simply watched. The kids were young enough that the latches were a mystery but they eventually unlocked the coolers. The kids soon opened the lids and got in the coolers. The kids “hid” in the coolers. Eventually kids sat on the lid when another kid was in the cooler. They would have found a way to lock another kid in the cooler. I was convinced that we had to change. [REDACTED] then changed the design of all medium sized and larger coolers so that the lid of the cooler could be pushed open from the inside with minimal force. We never saw any problems with the use or popularity of the coolers with the safety latch.

    All of this happened 50 years ago. Now it seems that you have either changed your standards or the manufacturers of picnic coolers have forgotten why we changed to safety lids. There are several brands of picnic coolers (Yeti and others) that offer large capacity picnic coolers with solid rubber latches/straps that could render their coolers death traps for small kids. I can think of no reason why the underlying principles of the original decision to require safety latches have changed.

    Where
    Overland Park, Kansas: Other
    Who was involved
    Unspecified
    The reporter’s relation to them
    Unspecified
    As this report names them
    Brand Yeti, made or sold by YETI Coolers, LLC
    How badly, in CPSC’s words
    Incident, No Injury
  3. No one hurt

    Made Mar 9, 2023, sent to the company Mar 14, 2023, published by CPSC Mar 29, 2023

    The product, in the report: YETI Hopper M30 2.0 Portable Soft Cooler with MagShield Access, Charcoal

    magnetic have started to erode and fall out of the circles

    Model
    Hopper M30 2.0
    UPC
    do not have
    Serial number
    do not have
    Bought from
    Amazon
    Bought
    Dec 8, 2022, about then
    Where
    The Woodlands, Texas: Home/Apartment/Condominium
    Who was involved
    Age 7, Female
    The reporter’s relation to them
    My Child
    As this report names them
    Brand YETI, made or sold by YETI Coolers, LLC
    How badly, in CPSC’s words
    Incident, No Injury

CPSC’s disclaimer

Disclaimer: CPSC does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or adequacy of the contents of the Publicly Available Consumer Product Safety Information Database on SaferProducts.gov, particularly with respect to information submitted by people outside of CPSC.

Source:

Word for word, from the disclaimer in CPSC’s export.

Sources

Sources

  • U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, SaferProducts.gov public database export.

    Released Oct 25, 2026 and checked Oct 25, 2026. Updated daily. Public domain (U.S. Government work). CPSC asks to be credited, and that no endorsement be implied.

Source:

Reports of harm are from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), on SaferProducts.gov. CPSC does not endorse Hearth Record.

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