Recall of Leatherman Multitool in Canada

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Leatherman Charge Plus multi-tools recalled due to laceration hazard - Canada.ca

The tip of the knife blade may not fully fold into the handle, posing a laceration hazard to users. As of September 10, 2025, the company has received no reports of incidents or injuries in Canada.

recalls-rappels.canada.ca

 

[afishhunter]

Glad no reports of injury to our northern friends.

How could a significant number of products with such an obvious safety defect like a proud blade tip make it past QC?!?
Makes me wonder if they even HAVE a QC department.

 

[yablanowitz]

No information included on how many have been found to be defective, or what the actual issue might be. A grain of sand in the right place can cause the blade tip to stand proud. From whining I've seen, it doesn't have to be an actual problem for the nanny state to take such action, just someone's fear that it could become a problem.

 

[ShaiHulud]

Glad no reports of injury to our northern friends.

How could a significant number of products with such an obvious safety defect like a proud blade tip make it past QC?!?
Makes me wonder if they even HAVE a QC department.

Take this for what its worth
*~* but I've read*~*
That they fired their QC department and added the QC a.k.a "final checks" to the last people on the assembly.
Again this is a <I've read> comment
And not to be taken as fact.
Someone on the YT frontier claims to have worked there for a while and spilled these beans.

 

[gustophersmob]

Take this for what its worth
*~* but I've read*~*
That they fired their QC department and added the QC a.k.a "final checks" to the last people on the assembly.
Again this is a <I've read> comment
And not to be taken as fact.
Someone on the YT frontier claims to have worked there for a while and spilled these beans.

In theory, this is a good thing. You can’t inspect in quality, so process control is the best method of reducing production variation. But that’s only true if they have robust process control and methods in place to monitor it.

 

[gustophersmob]

Is this “proud tip” only an issue in Canada?

 

[SharpBits]

Here is the Leatherman page about the recall. https://www.leatherman.com/pages/charge-recall

Looks like it is not limited to Canada.

 

[Steely_Gunz]

I have said the Bond has been dangerous for years. Much like the Charge, the Bond tends to have a very easily bumped to proud blade.

It was dangerous enough that I told my young daughter, at the time, to just not use the tool. It was very easy to snag you skin and cut the hell out of yourself.

I regulated it to the beach cooler as the beer bottle opener.

This one is really problematic since the Charge is not only more apt to be gripped in a dangerous manner, but it also assumed to be of high quality given the cost of the tool.

 

[SharpBits]

If they made them with spear point or wharncliffe blades, there wouldn’t be an issue.

 

[SharpBits]

I have said the Bond has been dangerous for years. Much like the Charge, the Bond tends to have a very easily bumped to proud blade.

It was dangerous enough that I told my young daughter, at the time, to just not use the tool. It was very easy to snag you skin and cut the hell out of yourself.

I regulated it to the beach cooler as the beer bottle opener.

This one is really problematic since the Charge is not only more apt to be gripped in a dangerous manner, but it also assumed to be of high quality given the cost of the tool.

A little work on the stones would drop the point low enough to be safe while only losing a little bit of blade length. Better than a way overpriced bottle opener.