Pacearth swing seats are recalled because the seat, clips or straps can break during use

Pacearth Direct has received at least 30 reports of people falling from PACEARTH swing seats, and at least nine of those falls caused injuries, among them fractures, head injuries and bruising. About 110,550 of the seats were sold on Amazon, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced their recall on Oct. 8, 2026, as recall number 27-019.

The U-shaped seats come in green, blue, pink, red and turquoise, and each one ships with a yellow plastic-coated chain, metal hardware and yellow webbing straps for hanging it from a swing set or a tree branch. Pacearth Direct, based in City of Industry, California, says the seat body, the hardware or the straps can give way while someone is swinging.

Seat, carabiner and strap failures

CPSC’s notice names three separate points of failure rather than one. The seats themselves can break, the metal carabiners or quick links that connect the seat to a chain or rope can break, and the webbing straps can break. The agency’s wording is that these parts “can break during use,” and it classifies the result as a fall hazard with a risk of serious injury from the fall. That is a narrower statement than the one on most furniture notices, and it matches the injuries listed: fractures, head injuries and bruising, all of the kind a drop from a swing produces.

The notice does not break the nine-plus injuries down by age. It also does not say which of the three components failed in each of the 30 fall reports, so the public record does not show whether the plastic seat, the metal clip or the strap is the weakest link. The product was made in China and sold individually or in packs of two.

The three-part wording matters for owners trying to judge their own seat. A seat that looks intact can still hang from a carabiner or strap, which are among the parts CPSC says can break, and the notice instructs owners to stop using the seat as a whole, not to swap a single component. The recall covers every PACEARTH U-type seat in the five colors, so a replacement strap or clip from another source does not change the seat’s status under the notice.

Amazon sales from 2017 to 2026

The sales window is the longest of the three consumer recalls CPSC posted on Oct. 8. Pacearth sold the seats exclusively on Amazon.com from May 2017 through June 2026 for between $27 and $57, a span of more than nine years. Packs of two and single seats were both offered, so the 110,550 figure counts seats, not orders, and the number of households holding them is lower than the unit count.

The notice is silent on whether the older seats failed more often than recent ones. Its incident figures are worded as minimums, “at least 30” falls and “at least nine” injuries, so the final tally may be higher than the notice states, and it gives no year-by-year split of when the reports arrived.

A similar recall earlier this year involved a different part of the same product type. On March 12, 2026, LFTE USA recalled about 7,200 playground swing set seats after the rivets holding the seat could fail, with one report of a child falling and a minor injury. That product went only to playground equipment makers, not to households, so the two recalls cover separate buyers.

Refund steps and where to report a failure

The remedy is a full refund, and it is conditioned on proof. Owners are told to stop using the swing seats, write the word RECALLED on the seat with a permanent marker, photograph the marked seat with the PACEARTH logo visible, and email the photo to [email protected]. Pacearth Direct lists that address as its only contact in the notice; there is no phone number.

The step of marking the seat before the refund is meant to keep the product from being reused or passed on, since consumers keep the marked seat rather than mailing it back. Anyone whose swing seat failed, whether or not it is a PACEARTH, can file a report with the agency at SaferProducts.gov, and the agency lists the current notices on its recalls page. The agency also publishes a Public Playground Safety Handbook for equipment in public settings.

The refund path puts the burden of proof on the owner. An email without the marked seat and the visible PACEARTH logo does not meet the notice’s conditions, and the only contact the notice lists is an email address, with no phone line for questions. CPSC states the remedy as a full refund and sets no cap on it.

Neither CPSC nor Pacearth Direct has published a count of refunds issued since the Oct. 8 announcement, so the share of the roughly 110,550 seats already pulled from backyards is unknown.

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

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