Every fact here comes from the official CPSC notice and the Fridge.com recall record; the full record for this notice lives on the Fridge.com page for CPSC recall 22143.
At the time of the notice, Electrolux had received 185 reports of the ice level detectors breaking, including one report of gum lacerations.
Those are the incident facts on record; nothing beyond them should be assumed.
On June 2, 2022, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced CPSC recall 22143: about 367,500 Frigidaire and Electrolux refrigerators recalled because the ice level detector arm in the ice maker can break into pieces and fall into the ice bucket, posing a choking hazard. About 7,180 additional units were sold in Canada. This guide explains which refrigerators are included, how to check the one you own, and what the free replacement covers. Every fact here comes from the official CPSC notice and the Fridge.com recall record; the full record for this notice lives on the Fridge.com page for CPSC recall 22143.
What Happened
Electrolux recalled fourteen refrigerator models — thirteen under the Frigidaire name and one under Electrolux — all featuring an ice maker whose ice level detector arm can break apart. The detector arm is the part that senses how full the ice bucket is; when it breaks, its pieces land exactly where ice is stored and scooped or dispensed. At the time of the notice, Electrolux had received 185 reports of the ice level detectors breaking, including one report of gum lacerations. Those are the incident facts on record; nothing beyond them should be assumed.
The engineering detail in the remedy is worth noting: replacement ice makers carry a detector arm made of polypropylene. The fix was a material change at the failing part, which tells you the original arm's material, under freezer conditions, was the root of the breakage pattern.
Which Refrigerators Are Recalled
The recall spans French door, side-by-side, and top-freezer configurations, in stainless steel, white, and black, ranging from 23 to 36 inches wide. Each model is included only within a listed serial range:
Open the refrigerator door and find the identification label. On these units the brand name, model number, and serial number are printed on a label on the right panel in the interior of the refrigerator compartment.
Compare the model number against the fourteen models in the table. No match means this recall does not include your unit.
If the model matches, compare the full serial number against that model's serial range — inclusion requires both.
If both match, stop using the ice maker, empty the ice bucket, and contact Electrolux for the free replacement described below.
The empty-the-bucket step is part of the official instruction for a reason: if the detector arm has already shed pieces, they are in the stored ice right now, and discarding that ice removes the immediate hazard while you wait for the technician.
The ice level detector arm lives above the ice bucket, so a broken arm drops its fragments directly into the supply of something people put in their mouths. Plastic in ice is hard to spot — both are rigid, pale, and cold — and ice gets chewed, which converts a swallowing hazard into a dental and laceration one as well. The one injury on record, a gum laceration, is precisely that path. Meanwhile the refrigerator gives no functional warning: cooling continues, ice production continues, and the only symptom may be fragments that look like cloudy ice.
What to Do Now
The official remedy is a free ice maker replacement, installed by a technician, with the new unit carrying a polypropylene ice level detector. Per the notice:
Immediately stop using the ice maker on a recalled unit.
Empty the ice bucket.
Contact Electrolux to schedule a technician visit for the free replacement.
Contact channels from the notice: Electrolux toll-free at 833-840-5926 from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, by email at IceMakerRecall@electrolux.com, or online at icemakerrecall.com — the notice also points to the recall pages on electrolux.com and frigidaire.com. The refrigerator itself can remain in service; the stop-use instruction is scoped to the ice maker. The Fridge.com recall page for CPSC 22143 links the official notice.
According to the CPSC notice, the recalled refrigerators were sold at Lowe's, Home Depot, and appliance stores nationwide, and online at Frigidaire.com, from April 2020 through March 2022, for between $1,200 and $4,300. Note the price ceiling: this recall reaches into premium territory, including the Frigidaire Professional and Electrolux French door units. A recall check is not something a higher purchase price exempts you from — the failing part was common across the range.
Frigidaire owners checking this notice should know about its sibling. In 2024, CPSC recall 24110 covered about 383,240 Frigidaire side-by-side units with Slim Ice buckets — a different component (the bucket assembly rather than the detector arm), a different model list, and an overlapping era. Neither notice clears you against the other, because the model lists are disjoint. If you own a dispenser-equipped Frigidaire from the late-2010s-to-2022 window, run the label check against both: this notice for the fourteen models above, and the ice bucket recall record for its seventeen. The two checks use the same label and take a minute together.
This notice settles inclusion by serial range, and ranges are where careful owners go wrong. Each model's range is a span between two full serial numbers — for the FFHI1835VS top freezer, for instance, BA92424713 through BA21210491 — and a unit is included only when its serial sorts inside its own model's span. Do not compare a serial against another model's range, and do not stop at the prefix: two units sharing the opening characters can sit on opposite sides of a range boundary. Copy the full serial from the label, find your exact model's row in the table, and compare character by character. If the comparison feels ambiguous — some of these ranges wrap in ways that are not obvious at a glance — the authoritative answer is one call away: Electrolux confirms inclusion from the model and serial directly, which is precisely what the contact channels in the notice exist for.
How This Recall Fits the Record
The Fridge.com recall record, built on U.S. CPSC filings, lists four Frigidaire recalls between 2022 and 2026, together covering 1,714,740 units. This notice opened that run, and with its 2024 sibling it establishes the ice system as the brand's recurring full-size failure site over the period — the other two entries are Curtis International mini fridges with a fire hazard, a separate product class. Choking-class hazards are less headline-grabbing than fire, but they are among the record's most common non-fire hazard types, and this notice is one of the largest of that class.
Each appliance tracked on Fridge.com carries a FIN — Fridge.com Identification Number — the permanent canonical ID that links each appliance across retailers, covering prices, specifications, and recall history. Product pages with a FIN carry a recall-alert signup: subscribe on the page for the model you own, and a new CPSC match against that FIN triggers an alert. Component recalls on working appliances generate no symptom that would ever send an owner looking — an alert reverses the direction, so the news finds you.
CPSC recall 22143, announced June 2, 2022 — about 367,500 refrigerators (plus about 7,180 in Canada): thirteen Frigidaire models and one Electrolux model, each within listed serial ranges.
The hazard: the ice level detector arm can break into pieces that fall into the ice bucket — a choking hazard, with 185 breakage reports and one gum-laceration report on record.
Check the label on the right interior panel of the refrigerator compartment; inclusion requires both the model match and the serial range match.
The remedy: stop using the ice maker, empty the bucket, and schedule a free technician replacement via 833-840-5926 or IceMakerRecall@electrolux.com — the new ice maker carries a polypropylene detector arm.
The 2024 Slim Ice bucket recall (CPSC 24110) is a separate action with a separate model list — check both if you own a Frigidaire of this era.
Sources: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recall notice 22143 (CPSC.gov) and the Fridge.com recall record.
Frequently Asked Questions
About 367,500 units (plus about 7,180 sold in Canada): thirteen Frigidaire models and one Electrolux model — French door, side-by-side, and top-freezer — each included only within a listed serial range. The label is on the right panel inside the refrigerator compartment.
From Fridge.com research
Figures below come from data Fridge.com builds and maintains. Each links to the record behind it.
Fridge.com recall record, built on U.S. CPSC filings
Frigidaire accounts for 4 of the 43 CPSC refrigeration recalls on file (2022–2026).
