API Product #34

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20111107-D7760-1213606. Severity: Injury, Level of care not known. Matched catalog product: API Product #34. Source model text: GS3400SE. Incident: The consumer says the unit is designed with a chain that wraps around the back of the tree. The chain broke in two. The consumer says he has brusing on his left leg. He was hanging upside down by one leg when the chain snapped. He was able to raise himself up and get a hold of the stand and free his foot. The consumer tried to contact the manufacturer who had been bought out. The acquiring company would not give him any information about his product. The consumer says this same product is being sold in stores.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20171025-CF020-2147396484. Severity: Injury, Seen by Medical Professional. Matched catalog product: API Product #34. Source model text: 8g-0216. Incident: I was climbing down the tree from my hunt. I was about 35 feet up I had made it all the way down to about 6 feet. When I heard a snap couldn't figure it out. So I continue to move downward not realizing the snap was the welds on the A-frame part of the stand causing the stand to the claps I fell to the ground. I have a bruised tailbone and a knot right above my buttocks. My back is very sore. After a couple minutes when I could get there by thought I looked over the stand and that's when I seen that the weld had broke.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20210329-B6998-2147365102. Severity: Injury, First Aid Received by Non-Medical Professional. Product: API Product #34 (It is the API Master Freshwater Test kit. It�s a small, plastic box with a blue lid that comes with chemicals to test aquarium water. It has four glass test tubes with plastic caps. Model Product #34). Incident: I was using my API Master Freshwater Test Kit to test the ammonia levels in my turtle tank. I just bought the kit maybe a week and a half ago. It comes with several glass test tubes that felt very thin and fragile to me so I was careful with them. When I tried to put the cap on the tube, as gently as a person is able, it shattered into my hand. The glass is razor sharp and punctured my finger. I feel that there is no good reason it should have broken, and there was no way for me to be more careful than I already was. Worried that there was a problem with this product, I posted about it in a couple aquarium [REDACTED] groups and learned that it seems like everyone who bought this kit in the last few months or so has broken their tubes, sometimes injuring themselves, and the ease with which theirs broke was shocking to them as well. People who bought the kit longer ago have not had this problem. One person commented who has tubes from recently and a while ago, and noticed the difference in sturdiness. I believe API changed the tubes that comes with this test kit and that they are dangerous. No product should break that easily when using how directed. The soonest I can get to my doctor is Wednesday, and I�ve been exposed to chemicals and turtle nastiness.