HP Battery Recall

HP has issued a battery recall for 54,000 lithium-ion notebook batteries. The recall was first announced Friday by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and adds on to an earlier recall of 70,000 of the same lithium-ion batteries.

The first recall came after two reports of the batteries overheating. Since then, HP has gotten 38 additional reports of the batteries overheating, causing 11 minor injuries. The reports said that those people were burned when they handled computers whose batteries had ruptured. This recall for HP was fairly small compared to the 2006-2007 recall of 10 million Sony laptop batteries.