A backyard zipline kit arrives as a coil of steel cable, a turnbuckle or ratchet strap to pull it tight, a plastic seat, a waist belt or harness, a trolley that rolls along the line, and a spring brake meant to slow the rider before the far anchor. Strung between two trees, it turns an ordinary yard into a ride 76 to 200 feet long that both children and adults use. Federal safety regulators announced on July 30 that one heavily sold version of that kit can come apart at several of those points, and that owners are entitled to their money back.
The cable, the turnbuckle and the seat can all let go
The recall covers TT Trsmima zipline kits and the same brand’s Heavy Duty Stainless Steel zipline spring brakes, which were also sold on their own to people assembling a line from parts. Two distinct defects are involved. The first is structural: the steel cable, the turnbuckle and the seat can detach or break while a rider is on the line. The second concerns stopping. The spring brakes are not stiff enough to slow a rider safely, and the kit as designed includes no emergency brake at all.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission put the volume at about 60,720 kits plus roughly 19,120 spring brakes sold separately, and set the remedy out in a single word: Refund. The notice carries recall number 26-632 and a recall date of July 30, 2026.
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Twenty injuries, split between falling and not stopping
The injury record is tracked defect by defect, which is unusual in a recall notice and useful to a reader trying to judge the risk. Trsmima received 21 reports of the turnbuckle, cable or seat breaking or detaching during use. Those produced falls and at least eight injuries, described as fractures, sprains, bruises and scratches.
The braking failures did more damage. The firm received 19 reports of a spring brake, whether packed inside a kit or bought on its own, failing to slow a rider down. In those cases riders collided with trees, fell, or both, and at least 12 people were hurt with fractures, concussions and abrasions. The two sets together account for at least 20 injuries across 40 reported incidents, which means roughly half of everything reported to the company ended with someone hurt rather than shaken.
The refund is conditional on destroying the equipment
This is not a mail-it-back recall. Owners are told to stop using the zipline immediately, take it down, and destroy it: cut the safety belt and the seat rope in half, cut the ratchet strap in half if that is the model on hand, and then discard every remaining component, including the cable, the spring brake, the turnbuckle and the trolley. Anyone who bought only the stand-alone spring brakes is told to put them in the trash.
Proof is the final step. Both groups have to photograph the destroyed and discarded products and send the images to the firm before a refund is issued. Trsmima is handling claims by email at [email protected] and through a recall page on its own website. CPSC’s notice sets no expiration on the refund, so there is no published deadline to race. The tradeoff is the other direction: a household that wants the money cannot keep the hardware, and one that keeps the hardware is left with the defects.
Identifying the kit already hanging in the yard
These products moved through one channel over a long stretch of time. They sold on Amazon.com from March 2020 through May 2026, at $45 to $285 for a kit and $14 to $48 for a spring brake bought by itself. Six years of sales at those prices means a substantial share of them are strung up outdoors right now, and CPSC does not estimate how many.
Some trolleys carry the name TT TRSMIMA in white lettering. Some of the plastic seats carry a label reading in part “Manufacturer Name: HuNanBoLuoDianZiShangWuYouXianGongSi,” the Chinese firm that does business as Trsmima and is also identified in the notice as Hunan Pineapple Electronic Commerce Co., Ltd. The stand-alone brakes are the hard case, because they shipped with black stoppers on each end and no labeling or instructions whatsoever. A buyer who ordered one of those in 2021 and cannot now name the seller has an unmarked part carrying a child down a cable.
A recall notice does not always come with money attached
The refund here is worth flagging precisely because it is not the default. On the same day, CPSC announced a recall of about 121,680 Galanz retro refrigerators tied to 34 fires and one death, and the remedy there is a free in-home repair rather than cash. Remedies are negotiated case by case, and the word printed in the remedy field decides whether a household is owed anything at all. Both notices sit on the agency’s public recall listing, which is the only place either status can be checked without going through the company.
One further point at the bottom of every CPSC notice matters for anyone eyeing a yard sale or a resale listing rather than a refund. Federal law prohibits any person from selling a product subject to a Commission-ordered recall or a voluntary recall undertaken in consultation with the agency. For recall 26-632 that rules out passing the zipline along, which lines up with the instruction CPSC actually gave: cut it, bin it, photograph it, and collect the refund.
This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by a human editor. Figures are linked to their primary sources; where a claim could not be verified from the public record, we say so.
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