110,550 swing seats sold on Amazon are recalled after 30 falls and nine injuries

About 110,550 PACEARTH U-shaped swing seats sold on Amazon are being recalled after the Consumer Product Safety Commission received at least 30 reports of falls that left at least nine people injured. The injuries include fractures, head injuries and bruising, and the cause is the same in each: a part of the swing broke while someone was on it.

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Owners are told to stop using the swings immediately. The recall, numbered 27-019, was announced on October 8, 2026 and is a refund remedy with a photo requirement rather than a repair.

Recall 27-019: what the seats are and where they were sold

The product is a U-type swing seat sold in green, blue, pink, red and turquoise, with a chain coated in yellow plastic, according to the CPSC recall notice. Each swing came with metal carabiners or quick links and yellow webbing straps for hanging it from a swing set or a tree branch, and it was sold either as a single seat or in a two-pack. Amazon.com was the only retailer, from May 2017 through June 2026, at prices from $27 to $57. The firm named in the notice is Pacearth Direct of City of Industry, California, and the notice lists China as the country of manufacture without naming a manufacturer or importer.

The same entry appears in the agency’s public data feed under recall number 27019, dated October 8 with the unit estimate of 110,550, in the SaferProducts.gov recall data that lists CPSC announcements from October 1 onward. The recall page address carries the year 2027 in its path even though the listed recall date is October 8, 2026, an oddity the page does not explain.

Seat, carabiner or strap: three parts that can let go

A hanging swing is a chain of load-bearing links, and the recall names three of them. The seats can break, the carabiners or quick links can break, and the webbing straps can break. If any one of the three gives way, the rider falls from wherever the swing happens to be. Of the 30 reported falls, nine produced reported injuries, and CPSC specifies fractures, head injuries and bruises among them.

The incident counts come with a caveat that the notice itself supplies: they are the reports Pacearth Direct had received before the recall, and CPSC phrases both numbers as “at least.” Nothing in the notice says how old the riders were or which of the three parts failed in each case.

The sales window is long, running from May 2017 to June 2026, so seats bought in the first year have been in circulation for roughly nine years. The notice offers no cause for the breakages, so whether age, load, weather or manufacturing quality drives the failures remains unstated, and nothing in it limits the recall to a particular purchase date within that window.

Because Amazon was the only retailer, the practical way to find out whether a seat is affected is to check the order history for a PACEARTH U-shaped swing in one of the five colors, single or two-pack. The notice describes the product by color, the yellow plastic-coated chain, the carabiners or quick links and the yellow webbing straps, so a swing already hanging in a yard can be matched against that description. CPSC’s OnSafety blog has also published general playground guidance for families who want a wider check of the equipment around a home.

Refund by photo, and a check for any swing left hanging

The remedy has an unusual extra step. Consumers should stop using the swings and contact Pacearth Direct for a full refund, but first write the word “RECALLED” on the seat in permanent marker, photograph the seat so that the PACEARTH logo is visible, and email the photo to [email protected]. The consumer contact listed in the notice is the same email address, [email protected].

For anyone who has hung a swing of any brand from a tree limb or a frame, CPSC’s Outdoor Home Playground Safety Handbook sets out routine checks. It advises using lightweight seats, checking swing seats, ropes, chains and cables monthly and replacing any that are worn, checking nuts and bolts twice a month, and closing S-hooks so that the gap is smaller than the thickness of a dime. The handbook adds that bolts should be tightened with lock washers or self-locking nuts so that they do not work loose, that any frayed or loose rope should be replaced right away, and that the manufacturer’s instructions should be kept so that replacement parts can be ordered. Those checks apply to a swing of any make, including ones outside this recall. The agency also keeps a searchable list of every announced CPSC recall, where a swing can be looked up by name before it goes back on a branch.

This article was produced with the assistance of AI and reviewed by Morning Overview editors prior to publication.

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