Over 5M swimming swimming pools bought at main retailers recalled after stories of 9 deaths

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Greater than 5 million above-ground swimming swimming pools are being recalled after stories of 9 kids drowning over a 15-year span.

The affected Bestway, Intex and Polygroup swimming pools are 48 inches and taller and use compression straps that wrap across the pool on the skin of the assist poles, the Shopper Product Security Fee mentioned in a discover on Monday. The straps “may create a foothold, allowing a child to access the pool and drown,” in keeping with the CPSC. It warned that kids can nonetheless acquire entry to the swimming pools utilizing the footholds, even when the ladder is eliminated.

The CPSC believes 9 kids between the ages of twenty-two months and three years previous drowned after having access to the swimming pools utilizing the footholds. It mentioned the incidents occurred in California, Texas, Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin and Missouri between 2007 and 2022.

“As part of this process, starting in 2023, the three companies began working with the CPSC and other safety advocates to update the safety standard for above-ground pools,” Bestway, Intex and Polygroup mentioned in a joint assertion. “The updated standard was finalized in May 2025 and aims to prevent unsupervised children from gaining a foothold on the products from compression straps that surround the outside of the pool legs.  

The companies said “most above-ground swimming pools 48 inches or taller in top at the moment being bought at present have already addressed this concern,” and that the recall is being issued to “make sure that these adjustments will be utilized to all above-ground swimming pools bought since 2002 which can be 48 inches or taller in top.”

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The recalled swimming swimming pools have been bought since 2002, and most just lately in 2025, at retailers nationwide, together with Walmart, Goal, Lowe’s, House Depot, Costco and Amazon. About 266,000 of the now-recalled swimming pools had been bought in Canada.

The CPSC believes 9 kids between the ages of twenty-two months and three years previous drowned after having access to the swimming pools utilizing the footholds. (Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Pictures/LightRocket by way of Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)

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Model names and mannequin numbers of the affected merchandise are printed on the pool liner exterior the pool.

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The CPSC mentioned shoppers ought to contact Bestway, Intex and Polygroup to obtain a free restore equipment that features a rope that serves as a alternative for the compression strap. The company mentioned shoppers ought to be certain that kids can’t entry the pool with out supervision or drain the pool till the restore is made.