SaferProducts incident

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20181022-D11BB-2147384876. Severity: Injury, Emergency Department Treatment Received. Product: Comodita Brava (Comodita brava walker, champagne color). Incident: I bought a Comodita Brava walker on Amazon in 2016. I really didn't use it that much until this year. It looked like new. While sitting on the seat on October 3, 2018 in Gulfport, Florida in a beach park under a gazebo, the plastic part of the walker suddenly sheared off and threw me on the ground. I had bloody elbow and knee. People helped me get up and notified the police who was nearby. He called the fire department. They wanted to transport me to ER. Instead I asked them to clean and wrap my wounds. Later that night I developed severe shoulder pain. Thankfully, there was no fracture. The force of hitting concrete floor, badly bruised my rotator cuff. I still have lingering pain. The walker is supposed to hold up to 300 pounds. I only 159 pounds. Reading a few one star comments about Comodita walkers, I realized that this is not an isolated incident and I felt I should report it. I do have pictures of my injuries, broken walker, witnesses and a police case number.