Home Depot light bulbs

1 report to CPSC, the latest made May 12, 2015. A report isn’t a recall.

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At a glance

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1report to CPSC
May 12, 2015the latest report was made
May 12, 2015the earliest
1with the company’s comments

Brand: Home Depot
Maker: Cree, Inc.Makers, importers or sellers, as the reports name them
Product: Light bulbsCPSC’s product type: Light Bulbs (code 627), in Furniture, Furnishings & Decorations: Indoor Lighting

By month

1 report from June 2014 to May 2015; the most in May 2015, 1.

The numbers, as a table

Reports to CPSC by the month each was made, newest first
Month	Reports
May 2015	1

How badly anyone was hurt

No one hurt 1 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.

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

No one hurt
Made May 12, 2015, sent to the company May 20, 2015, published by CPSC Jun 4, 2015

The product, in the report: Cree 9.5-Watt (60W) Soft/Warm White (2700K) LED Light Bulb, for consumer/home use.

A Cree-type 60watt-equivalent LED light bulb blew apart in an overhead light fixture in my home, with the light switch in the OFF position. It shattered the fixture’s glass protective bowl, spewing glass fragments all over the floor and damaging our laminate flooring. The bulb itself popped it’s glass casing away from the ceramic base, but is pretty much intact.
We’re very concerned about the potential for injury to home inhabitants, represented by the possibility of the bulb blowing apart. It mystifies me why an LED bulb would even blow apart at all when the light switch is Off! After cleaning up and removing the broken glass and broken light bulb, I personally checked the light fixture and found no flaws. In fact, I screwed in a standard incandescent 60 watt bulb and it functioned perfectly when I turned the light switch to ON.
Home Depot sells these CREE lightbulbs under their house name, but there’s no identifying information on the manufacturer. I’ve written to Home Depot to ask for manufacturer information so i can make a claim for damages.

Model
# BA19-08027OMF-12DE26-2U100
Bought from
Home Depot
Bought
Dec 15, 2014, about then
Where
Yorktown, Virginia: Home/Apartment/Condominium
Who was involved
Female
The reporter’s relation to them
Self
As this report names them
Brand Home Depot, made or sold by Cree, Inc.
How badly, in CPSC’s words
Incident, No Injury

The company’s comments, in its own words

(6/4/2015) Cree, Inc.: Cree’s mission is to obsolete energy wasting light bulbs and drive 100% adoption of LED lighting. Since releasing its new line of high performance, low cost LED bulbs in March 2013, Cree has sold millions of Cree LED bulbs. Cree LED bulbs with the Cree Filament Tower™ Technology save 84% of the energy compared to typical incandescent bulbs, are designed to last 25 times longer, and come with an industry leading 10 year limited warranty.
Cree’s LED bulbs have been designed and tested for safety because consumer safety is fundamental to achieving Cree’s goal of full consumer conversion to LED technology. Cree takes this responsibility very seriously. The Cree LED bulb is UL listed, and each Cree LED bulb has a transparent safety coating that exceeds the safety standards specified by UL, and has undergone various UL accreditation procedures, including “drop” testing. And unlike compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs), Cree LED bulbs are mercury free.
When you are manufacturing millions of bulbs, there will be some production failures. Cree monitors failure rates and customer return rates very closely, and we continue to believe we have one of the lowest product failure rates in the industry. To address the occasional failure, Cree has designed the bulb to fail safely, by including the transparent safety coating described above to enclose the glass globe of the bulb. The safety coating is engineered to keep the glass from shattering upon contact with a hard surface, thereby avoiding a laceration hazard to consumers.
In connection with this response to Report #20150512-6AD94-2147433002 (the “Report”), our Customer Service Team was able to reach the consumer that filed the Report by telephone and discussed the incident with him, and offered to replace the consumer’s bulbs, as well as to request that the consumer send us the bulbs for further inspection and analysis. Although the consumer agreed to send us the bulb for further inspection and analysis by our engineers to see if we could determine the cause of the alleged failure, as of the date of this response we have not yet received the bulb.
As for the incident bulb itself, while we understand from the report that the consumer believes that the bulb “blew apart”, the physics and physical properties of the Cree LED bulb itself mean that the bulb cannot actually explode. In fact, the Cree LED bulb is designed to breathe (and is purposefully not airtight) so that there cannot be a pressure build-up in the physical structure of the bulb. We assume that what the consumer did hear was either (a) a “popping” or similar sound from the moment when the globe detached from the base of the bulb or (b) the sound of the glass dome from the light fixture itself hitting the floor. Quite simply, this kind of bulb is not physically capable of exploding. Moreover, the glass of the Cree bulb itself is intact in the photos posted by the consumer with his report. Such intact glass on the Cree bulb is inconsistent with a glass object that “blew apart”. The other pictures also show that the damage to the light fixture itself –other than the glass dome of the fixture which we understand to have somehow fell to the floor – is minimal, which is also not consistent with an object that “blew apart”.
We want to encourage interaction, feedback, comments, questions and concerns with our customers, and we want to address issues promptly and directly so that they may be appropriately handled. Consumers can reach our customer service department at 1-866-924-3645 from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

CPSC report 20150512-6AD94-2147433002. Submitter: Consumer Search for it on SaferProducts.gov

CPSC’s disclaimer

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Home Depot light bulbs

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