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LG Energy Solution recalls home/ESS batteries after thermal events, one injury

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Record

CompanyLG Energy Solution
Categoryenergy storage
Typerecall
Date
Time of daynot documented
Locationno physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record)
SeverityS3 (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault)
ScaleUS residential ESS recall, ~$350M cost
Confidencehigh
VerificationYes - adversarially checked against the cited source
SourceEnergyTrend

What happened

LG Energy Solution recalled residential ESS batteries manufactured Apr 2017-Sep 2018 (Nanjing factory) after reports of overheating; the company disclosed thermal events in the US causing property damage and one injury, and took a ~$350M charge for replacements.

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