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1 report to CPSC, the latest made Jan 5, 2013. A report isn’t a recall.

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From SaferProducts.gov, released Oct 25, 2026.

  • 1report to CPSC
  • Jan 5, 2013the latest report was made
  • Jan 5, 2013the earliest
  • 0with the company’s comments
Brand
Klein Depthfinder
Maker
KLEIN TOOLS INCMakers, importers or sellers, as the reports name them
Product
Other manual workshop toolsCPSC’s product type: Other Manual Workshop Tools (code 881), in Home Maintenance and Structures: Tools & Hardware

By month

1 report from February 2012 to January 2013; the most in January 2013, 1.
The numbers, as a table
Reports to CPSC by the month each was made, newest first
MonthReports
January 20131

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.

Source:

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

  1. Hurt, no treatment

    Made Jan 5, 2013, sent to the company Jan 25, 2013, published by CPSC Feb 8, 2013

    The product, in the report: Steel Fish Tape - for pulling electrical cable through conduit and existing construction.

    Issue is with Klein Tools Depthfinder Steel Fish Tape # 56003. Below, my email to the manufacturer, Klein Tools, pretty much spells out the problem. My assessment of the cause is a structurally inadequate construction, namely a case made of inadequately stiff plastic that permits the content, always a sprung load, to entangle and jam. The safety issue is that this happens every five or six uses and, with the spring steel loose end of the tape bobbing and flying about, with its users frequently constrained in tight quarters (because of the nature of the work for which this things is used), there is a very significant eye hazard both to the user and anyone else in the vicinity.

    --------------- Email:

    From: [REDACTED] Date: January 5, 2013 7:09:15 PM EST To: customerservice@kleintools.com Subject: Depthfinder Steel Fish Tape - Garbage

    Today, for the umpteenth time over the last year, my Klein fish tape jammed again. I’ve had it apart a number of times, straightened bends in the tape, wound and rewound it carefully onto the plastic reel, giving more TLC to a simple tool than I do to even complicated power tools, yet it never works for more than a few uses before again binding, it’s cheap plastic case distorting and causing tangles. For the tape’s intended purpose, it is worthless. But this isn’t the worst. Being difficult to keep unbound and requiring extra effort and attention, often in tight quarters, it’s loose end all too frequently swings dangerously about, risking putting my or coworkers eyes out. The darned thing is flat out dangerous.

    Tonight I discarded it and will never have another, at least never one made cheaply of inadequate plastic.

    [REDACTED] Clinton, TN

    Model
    Depthfinder 125 ft. Steel Fish Tape
    Serial number
    56003
    Bought from
    Home Depot
    Bought
    Apr 1, 2011, about then
    Where
    Clinton, Tennessee: Home/Apartment/Condominium
    Who was involved
    Age 57, Male
    The reporter’s relation to them
    Self
    As this report names them
    Brand Klein Depthfinder, made or sold by KLEIN TOOLS INC
    How badly, in CPSC’s words
    Injury, No First Aid or Medical Attention Received

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.

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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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