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Farm gear firm John Deere is recalling about 147,900 compact utility tractors within the U.S. because of the threat they might lose braking and crash.
The recalled John Deere 1023E, 1025R and 2025R compact utility tractors may pose a “crash hazard” to customers if their entrance bell crank within the brake linkage experiences a failure, in response to a recall alert printed Thursday by the Client Product Security Fee (CPSC).
Within the alert, it instructed affected prospects to not function their tractors till they acquire a free restore from a licensed John Deere supplier.
Farm gear firm John Deere is recalling about 147,900 compact utility tractors within the U.S. because of the threat they might lose braking and crash. (Client Product Security Fee)
Greater than 2,000 John Deere agricultural and development and forestry gear dealerships exist throughout the U.S. and Canada, in response to the corporate.
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“If the consumer is not able to transport the tractor to a dealer’s location, then the dealer will make arrangements to repair the unit at the consumer’s residence,” the CPSC recall mentioned.
John Deere gear on the market at a United Ag and Turf dealership in Colchester, Connecticut, on Nov. 3, 2023. (Joe Buglewicz/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
4 identified situations of the tractors having a brake linkage failure have occurred within the U.S. These led to at least one hospitalization, two affect accidents and “minor” injury to the tractors, in response to the CPSC.
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“Nothing is more important to us than the safety of our customers,” John Deere informed FOX Enterprise. “For this reason, in cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, we are voluntarily issuing a recall to address a potential crash hazard on John Deere 1023E, 1025R, and 2025R compact utility tractors purchased from November 2017 through July 2024.”
John Deere signage on the World Agriculture Expo in Tulare, California, on Feb. 13. (David Swanson/Bloomberg through Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
The recalled tractors have been offered at John Deere sellers throughout the nation and featured both open or closed operator stations.
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A recall of one other 16,800 of the compact utility tractor fashions can be underway in Canada.
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John Deere constructed the recalled tractors within the U.S.
The corporate sells its array of agricultural gear to distributors and sellers in over 100 nations.
