“The health and safety of our customers is always a top priority,” the company said in a statement that traveled widely across social media.
But this was not a new problem, according to a review of CPSC documents and lawsuits.
Walmart had known about the danger since 2018. That detail wasn’t mentioned in the recall notice. The company and regulator confirmed the information following Post inquiries.
In fact, all three injuries noted in the CPSC warning had occurred within months of one another seven years earlier, starting in March 2018 when a couple outside Atlanta tried to share some homemade beef and pepper soup stored in an Ozark Trail bottle. A subsequent lawsuit alleged that after the lid seemed stuck the man held the bottle while the woman twisted the screw-on cap.
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