Health Canada Recalls 343 DR Power Trimmer Mowers Canadian Owners Are Parking for Winter
A Fire-Hazard Recall That Arrives the Week the Machine Goes Into the Shed
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Published: October 8, 2026, 12:38 p.m. ET
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Key Takeaways
•Health Canada recall RA-82694, published October 8, 2026, covers three DR Power Pilot and Premier trimmer mower models; 343 were sold in Canada, and owners are told to stop using them immediately.
•Eligibility turns on the model number printed on the side-frame label, not on the manufacture date, because every serial number of the listed models is included.
•The remedy is a free repair kit, and DR Power's own storage instructions rule out parking a fuelled trimmer mower in a building with a furnace, water heater or clothes dryer.
On October 8, 2026, Health Canada published consumer product recall RA-82694 for DR Power Pilot and Premier trimmer mowers. The defect is simple to describe. Grass and debris can build up inside the unit and ignite, creating fire and burn hazards. Manufacturer Generac Power Systems reported 343 affected units sold in Canada and 42,860 in the United States between November 2022 and July 2026, and DR Power is offering a free repair kit.
The timing is the problem. Early October is when most Canadian owners make the last cut of the year and roll the machine into a garage or shed for six months, carrying whatever the season packed into it. A stop-use instruction is easy to obey when you were about to stop anyway. It is also easy to ignore, because a parked machine feels like a solved problem.
It is not solved until the kit is installed. This report covers which machines are included, how to read the label, why the Canadian incident count offers less comfort than it appears to, how to request the repair, and where an unrepaired trimmer mower should and should not spend the winter.
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What Health Canada recalled on October 8
The notice is short and specific. According to Health Canada's recall notice for DR Power Pilot and Premier trimmers, consumers should immediately stop using the recalled product and contact DR Power for repair instructions. It is a joint recall with the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission, issued the same day on both sides of the border.
Detail
What the Canadian notice says
Recall number
RA-82694
Published
October 8, 2026
Hazard
Grass and debris can accumulate in the unit and ignite; fire and burn risk
Units sold in Canada
343
Units sold in the United States
42,860
Sale period
November 2022 to July 2026
Canadian incidents
None reported as of October 7, 2026
U.S. incidents
19 reports, two involving injuries
Remedy
Stop use; contact DR Power for repair instructions
Two manufacturers are named on the notice: Generac Power Systems of Jefferson, Wisconsin, and Rato Tech Singapore PTE in Vietnam. Neither notice publishes a Canadian price or names a Canadian retailer.
Identification comes first, and it rests on one thing: the model number. Health Canada says the model and serial number are printed on a white label on the side frame of the trimmer mower, and that the manufacture date appears on that serial number label in YYYYMMDD format. A date reading 20240315 means March 15, 2024.
The date is useful for your records. It is not a cut-off. The manufacturer's list marks the serial range for every recalled model as "All", so no build date takes a listed model out of the recall.
The model lists themselves differ by source. On DR Power's voluntary safety recall page, eight model numbers appear, and the U.S. regulator publishes the same eight. Health Canada lists three.
Model number
Description
On Health Canada's list
On DR Power's list
T4X1076DMN
Pilot 7.6 FPT DR MS
Yes
Yes
T4X1176DMN
Pilot 7.6 FPT DR MS
Yes
Yes
TR43076DMN
Premier 7.6 FPT DR MS
Yes
Yes
T4X1076DMNR
Pilot, reconditioned
No
Yes
T4X1076DMNSD
Pilot, SD
No
Yes
T4X1176DMN-1
Pilot
No
Yes
T4X1176DMNR
Pilot, reconditioned
No
Yes
TR43076DMNR
Premier, reconditioned
No
Yes
Nothing in the notices says the five suffixed models were sold in Canada. If your label carries one of them, though, the machine is on the manufacturer's own list, and the right move is to stop using it and ask DR Power directly.
Expect one small inconsistency when you go looking. The repair-kit request form describes the serial number as a ten-digit number beginning with 3, found on a silver foil sticker on the side of the orange body. The text above that form, like Health Canada, describes a white label on the side frame. Check both places and copy the model number exactly, suffix included.
Tip
Photograph the label before the machine goes behind the snow blower. The repair-kit form asks for both the model number and the serial number, and a photo saves a second trip to the shed in January.
Why zero Canadian reports is not the reassuring number
The incident record splits cleanly at the border. As of October 7, 2026, the company had received no reports of incident or injury in Canada. In the United States it had received 19.
That gap tracks exposure, not safety. Canada accounts for 343 of roughly 43,200 units sold, which is less than one per cent of the total. Nineteen reports across 42,860 U.S. machines works out to about one report for every 2,256 units. Apply that same ratio to 343 machines and the expected number of Canadian reports is well below one. Zero is what a small fleet looks like, whatever the underlying risk.
The U.S. notice adds detail the Canadian one leaves out. The Consumer Product Safety Commission's recall notice describes all 19 reports as trimmer mowers catching fire, with the two injuries characterized as minor, such as blisters on hands and feet. It rounds the Canadian count to "about 340" and gives a U.S. price range of US$380 to US$550.
So the injury record is modest. The fire record is not. Every one of those 19 reports was a machine that caught fire, and the instruction to a Canadian owner is identical to the instruction to an American one: stop using it.
A recall of 343 units is a notification problem before it is anything else. Neither the Canadian nor the U.S. notice describes a program for contacting owners. The practical assumption is that you will hear about this only if you go looking.
The sales channel makes that harder, not easier. DR Power sells factory-direct online, and it also sells through dealers: the company's sales and service dealer locator offers Canada as a location alongside the United States.
Split a few hundred machines across online orders and scattered dealers, and no single party holds a complete owner list. A machine bought second-hand, inherited with a property or never registered sits outside every list.
Searching for the notice has its own trap. A search for DR Power in Health Canada's recall database returned nine consumer product notices since April 2022 when we ran it on October 8, 2026. Three are dated 2026.
Date
Product
Hazard
January 8, 2026
Walk-behind and tow-behind leaf vacuums and leaf blower (re-announced and expanded)
Laceration
August 6, 2026
PRO MAX30 30-inch walk-behind lawn mowers
Laceration
October 8, 2026
Pilot and Premier trimmers
Fire and burn
None of the eight earlier notices covers a trimmer mower. An owner who lands on the August lawn mower recall and finds a different model number may conclude, wrongly, that the machine is clear. Use the recall number, RA-82694, to confirm you are reading the right page.
The remedy is a kit, shipped to you. DR Power describes it as a free consumer remedy kit that includes instructions for what the company calls easy installation, and its recall page carries an instruction video. The request runs through an online form that asks for your name, address, shipping address, phone, email, serial number and model number. Canada is among the country options.
Set expectations on timing. The company asks owners to allow one to two weeks for it to review a request, says it may email for more information, and sends a confirmation once the kit order is placed. That window covers review only. No delivery date is promised.
Three channels are published, and one of them comes with a discrepancy:
Online form: on DR Power's recall page, linked from the Health Canada notice.
Email:recall@drpower.com, the one contact detail that is identical on the Canadian notice, the U.S. notice and the company page.
Phone: Health Canada and the U.S. regulator both give 1-800-854-3194, while DR Power's own recall page gives 800-929-5018. Hours are the same on all three: 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET, Monday to Friday.
Owners who would rather not do the work themselves have a question worth asking. The U.S. notice says consumers with concerns about installing the kit can contact DR Power to schedule a free repair installation from an authorized dealer. The Canadian notice does not repeat that offer, so confirm whether it extends to Canada when you make contact.
Two absences are worth naming as absences. The form has no field for proof of purchase, and none of the three pages states a claim deadline. Neither silence is a guarantee, which is one more reason to file before the machine disappears into storage.
Important
The Canada Consumer Product Safety Act prohibits recalled products from being redistributed, sold or even given away in Canada. An unrepaired trimmer mower cannot go on a classifieds site, into a garage sale or to a neighbour during fall cleanout.
Start with what the recall does not say. Neither Health Canada's notice nor DR Power's recall page gives a storage instruction for an affected machine awaiting repair. Neither tells owners to run it, clean it or empty it first. The only recall-specific direction is to stop using it.
That rules out one tempting idea. Do not start the engine to burn off the remaining fuel or to shake debris loose. Running it is using it.
The manufacturer's standing guidance fills part of the gap. In DR Power's trimmer mower storage instructions, the wording is direct: "Never store the DR Trimmer Mower with fuel in the fuel tank inside a building where ignition sources are present, such as hot water and space heaters, clothes dryers and the like." The same passage says that if you are going to drain the fuel tank, do it outdoors, and that the machine should be kept in a dry location out of the reach of children.
That instruction predates the recall and applies to every DR trimmer mower. It still answers most of the storage question.
Storage spot
What the guidance supports
Basement or utility room with a furnace or water heater
Ruled out by DR Power for a machine with fuel in the tank
Attached garage with a water heater, space heater or dryer
Ruled out by DR Power for a machine with fuel in the tank
Detached shed or garage, dry, with no ignition sources
Consistent with DR Power's instruction and with Canadian fire-service guidance on gasoline
Anywhere children can reach it
Contrary to DR Power's instruction
Debris is the harder half, because debris is the recalled hazard and the notices are silent on clearing it. What exists is a general procedure. The DR Pilot trimmer mower operating manual says that to remove grass or debris from the underside of the deck, the operator must always shut off the engine, wait five minutes for parts to cool, and disconnect the spark plug wire.
Treat that as routine maintenance done with the engine off, not as a fix. The recall does not say where inside the unit debris accumulates, and brushing off what you can see does not replace the kit. Ask DR Power what it wants done with the machine in the meantime, and get the answer in writing by email.
General Canadian fuel-safety guidance points the same direction as the manufacturer. The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety's guidance on fuel in garages warns that gasoline vapours are flammable, heavier than air and able to travel long distances to an ignition source such as a furnace, hot-water tank or heater. That guidance concerns fuel vapour generally. It is not an account of how the 19 reported fires started; the regulators attribute those to accumulated grass and debris.
Fire services give similar advice about location. Newfoundland and Labrador's Fire Services Division, in safe fuel storage guidance published by the Town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay, recommends that gasoline be stored in small quantities in a detached shed or garage where possible, away from heat sources including sunlight, space heaters and furnaces. Local rules may add requirements of their own.
The sequence that follows from the evidence is short. Photograph the label. File the repair-kit request now. Park the machine cool, in a dry detached building if you have one, away from anything with a flame or an element. Then install the kit before the first cut of spring, not after it.
Start with what the recall does not say. Neither Health Canada's notice nor DR Power's recall page gives a storage instruction for an affected machine awaiting repair. Neither tells owners to run it, clean it or empty it first. The only recall-specific direction is to stop using it.
That rules out one tempting idea. Do not start the engine to burn off the remaining fuel or to shake debris loose. Running it is using it.
The manufacturer's standing guidance fills part of the gap. In DR Power's trimmer mower storage instructions, the wording is direct: "Never store the DR Trimmer Mower with fuel in the fuel tank inside a building where ignition sources are present, such as hot water and space heaters, clothes dryers and the like." The same passage says that if you are going to drain the fuel tank, do it outdoors, and that the machine should be kept in a dry location out of the reach of children.
That instruction predates the recall and applies to every DR trimmer mower. It still answers most of the storage question.
Storage spot
What the guidance supports
Basement or utility room with a furnace or water heater
Ruled out by DR Power for a machine with fuel in the tank
Attached garage with a water heater, space heater or dryer
Ruled out by DR Power for a machine with fuel in the tank
Detached shed or garage, dry, with no ignition sources
Consistent with DR Power's instruction and with Canadian fire-service guidance on gasoline
Anywhere children can reach it
Contrary to DR Power's instruction
Debris is the harder half, because debris is the recalled hazard and the notices are silent on clearing it. What exists is a general procedure. The DR Pilot trimmer mower operating manual says that to remove grass or debris from the underside of the deck, the operator must always shut off the engine, wait five minutes for parts to cool, and disconnect the spark plug wire.
Treat that as routine maintenance done with the engine off, not as a fix. The recall does not say where inside the unit debris accumulates, and brushing off what you can see does not replace the kit. Ask DR Power what it wants done with the machine in the meantime, and get the answer in writing by email.
General Canadian fuel-safety guidance points the same direction as the manufacturer. The Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety's guidance on fuel in garages warns that gasoline vapours are flammable, heavier than air and able to travel long distances to an ignition source such as a furnace, hot-water tank or heater. That guidance concerns fuel vapour generally. It is not an account of how the 19 reported fires started; the regulators attribute those to accumulated grass and debris.
Fire services give similar advice about location. Newfoundland and Labrador's Fire Services Division, in safe fuel storage guidance published by the Town of Happy Valley-Goose Bay, recommends that gasoline be stored in small quantities in a detached shed or garage where possible, away from heat sources including sunlight, space heaters and furnaces. Local rules may add requirements of their own.
The sequence that follows from the evidence is short. Photograph the label. File the repair-kit request now. Park the machine cool, in a dry detached building if you have one, away from anything with a flame or an element. Then install the kit before the first cut of spring, not after it.
Ryan is the founder of Homeowner.ca and a proud Canadian homeowner based in Guelph, Ontario. Over his 25-year career in digital publishing, he has focused on transforming complex information into clear, practical guidance that helps people make confident, well-informed decisions.
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