# Overstock.com Recalls High-Powered Magnet Sets Due to Ingestion Hazards
> **CPSC recall** · 2013-04-15 · 13731 · 1 injuries reported
## Recall
- **Number:** 13731
- **Date:** 2013-04-15
- **Injuries reported:** 1
## Products

Buckyballs high-powered magnet sets

## Hazards

When two or more magnets are swallowed, they can link together inside a child's intestines and clamp onto body tissues, causing intestinal obstructions, perforations, sepsis and death. Internal injury from magnets can pose serious lifelong health effects.

## Remedies

Refund

## Retailer(s)

Overstock.com and retailers nationwide from November 2010 through July 2012 for about $20.

## Importer(s)

Maxfield & Oberton LLC

## Country of manufacture

China

## Description

This recall involves high-powered magnets sets with the brand name Buckyballs. The sets contain 216 silver-colored, spherical rare earth magnets, each about five millimeters in diameter.

## Source
- [CPSC recall page](https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2013/Overstock-Recalls-High-Powered-Magnet-Sets)
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