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UV Skinz Boys swim trunks

1 source-linked failure report. Most reported: Fire / ignition. Typical failure around 1.2 yr.

Reliability signal — · Insufficient data · data confidence Very Low

1 confirmed failure reports

Reliability summary

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1 confirmed failure report · Insufficient data · Data confidence: Very Low

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Most common issue
Fire / ignition
Typical first failure
1.2 yr
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  • Fire / ignition1 · 100%

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Median months to failure

14

Failure reports

1

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What breaks?

What breaks? · reports

Fire / ignition

Swimming (Activity, Apparel or Equipment) (3274)

14 months

Government / agencyIndexed Oct 16, 2026Source-linkedVerify source — SaferProducts.gov incident

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20190614-90DE7-2147380436. Severity: Injury, Emergency Department Treatment Received. Product: UV Skinz Boys swim trunks (UV Skinz boys swim trunks (sold at Costco last year in a set with rash guard and hat)). Incident: Earlier today, my family and I had a horrifying and traumatic experience with a pair of boys swim trunks made by UV Skinz which I purchased at Costco last year and which may or may not be currently sold in Costco stores. Today was my son's 8th birthday, and he spent the afternoon swimming with his older brother at our community pool. The swim shorts he was wearing have a breathable mesh inner lining, and I have seen many children wearing these exact same swim shorts in my community, and can reasonably expect them to be worn all over the US where they have been sold by Costco. After several hours of swimming, he returned home and after lounging around for an hour or so, was asked to go upstairs to take a shower. I was cooking dinner when I was interrupted by his screams as he pulled down his swim trunks before heading upstairs. I ran over, and his shorts were halfway down his rear and the skin of penis (please excuse the graphic nature of this email, as I want to accurately describe what occurred) was torn and bloody, somehow tangled and swollen to the size of a small pea in a single hole in the mesh lining. As you can imagine, it was horrifying and scary�my 8-year-old was in severe pain, crying and screaming, while trying to remove his penis skin from the mesh, which only exacerbated the issue causing additional tearing of his skin and bleeding. I was trying to determine how it was stuck, meanwhile yelling for my husband's assistance. We attempted to cut the mesh lining up to the accident site where the skin was enflamed and bloody, but my son was so hysterical that he woul

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Months until failure

14 months

Repair cost

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Repaired

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Support helpful

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AI extraction confidence

88%

Verification status

Unverified

Evidence quality

★★★★☆ (4/5)

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