# Excel Industries Recalls Accessory LED Light Kits Due to Risk of Serious Injury from Fire Hazard

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- Recall number: 26722
- Recall date: 2026-08-27
- Updated: 2026-08-27
- Retrieved: 2026-09-04T02:16:51+00:00
- Derived urgency: high (publisher heuristic)
- Immediate-action tag: `stop_using` (publisher heuristic)

## Products

- Accessory LED Light Kits used with certain ride-on mowers

## Hazards

- The light bars can overheat or produce flames, posing a risk of serious injury from a fire hazard.

## Official remedy

- Consumers should stop using the accessory LED Light Kits immediately and contact their point-of-sale dealers to receive a refund upon return of the light kit. Light kits installed on mowers can be removed either at the local dealer or at the consumer’s residence.

Excel Industries toll-free at 888-848-6038 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday ET or email at safetyadvisory@sbdinc.com or online at www.hustlerturf.com/product-recall or www.bigdogmowerco.com/product-recall or www.hustlerturf.com and click on “Service & Parts” and then “Product Recalls” in the drop-down menu for more information.

## Description

This recall involves an accessory LED Light Kit containing two LED Light Bars and kit components. These accessory products are used on Hustler or BigDog ride-on mowers as an accessory light at the front of the mower. A black or yellow steel mounting bracket attaches to the mower footrest at the front of the mower and holds two LED Light Bars as headlights. The LED Light Bars are clear plastic with a white and a black wire and an orange plug at the end. They measure 6 inches wide and ¾ of an inch tall.

## Deterministic enrichment

- Product identifiers: Accessory LED Light Kits used with certain ride-on mowers
- Safely parsed reported counts: incidents: 0
- Ruleset: `cpsc-deterministic-enrichment 1.0.0`

Raw values, source-field paths, rule metadata, and any count abstentions are in the JSON record. These publisher-derived fields are not CPSC advice.


## Sources and formats

- [Official CPSC recall](https://cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026/Excel-Industries-Recalls-Accessory-LED-Light-Kits-Due-to-Risk-of-Serious-Injury-from-Fire-Hazard)
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