Frigidaire Gas Range Recall Draws Class Action Over Burn Injuries

Electrolux is now defending the Frigidaire gas range recall in court. A proposed class action filed May 14 in federal court in Illinois claims the ranges recalled this spring pose an unreasonably dangerous burn hazard, according to ClassAction.org. The case, Reato v. Electrolux Consumer Products, Inc., alleges the company sold the ranges despite "superior knowledge about the defective nature" of their bake burners.

The recall behind the suit is a big one. In March, Electrolux and the CPSC recalled about 174,800 Frigidaire gas ranges in the US, plus 5,300 in Canada, sold at Lowe's, Home Depot and Frigidaire.com between June 2025 and January 2026 for $630 to $2,700. Delayed ignition of the oven's bake burner lets gas pool in the cavity before it lights. Electrolux had received 62 reports of ranges malfunctioning, 30 of them resulting in burn injuries, per Consumer Reports.

Affected units span the Frigidaire, Frigidaire Gallery and Frigidaire Professional lines, including models FCFG3083AS, FCRG3083AD and PCFG3080AF, with serial numbers VF52200000 through VF54399999. We covered the basics in our initial recall report.

The complaint goes further than the recall notice. It alleges Electrolux falsely marketed the ranges as safe, and that the injuries were "demonstrably avoidable" had safer design changes been made before sale. The named plaintiff seeks class-wide relief for consumers who bought the recalled units.

Thirty injuries across 62 incidents is an ugly ratio. For comparison, the Fisher & Paykel pro range recall in April involved the same delayed-ignition failure mode and logged one minor burn across 18 incidents.

The Remedy Is a Service Call

Here's the part the consumer press keeps skipping: the fix is labor. Electrolux's remedy is free professional in-home installation of a replacement bake burner, which means this recall is, functionally, 174,800 scheduled service calls routed through the company's authorized network.

For factory-authorized shops in the affected retail footprint, that's months of guaranteed volume. Recall campaign rates are usually flat and rarely generous, but the work fills schedule gaps and puts a tech in front of a homeowner who owns other appliances that age. If your shop isn't authorized and keeps watching campaigns like this go to competitors, our guide on becoming a factory-authorized servicer covers what the process actually involves.

Independents outside the program still intersect with it.

Advise affected customers to stop using the oven until Electrolux completes the repair. The cooktop burners run on separate ignition circuits and remain safe to use. And don't field-fix a recalled bake burner with an aftermarket part; it can muddy the owner's free remedy and, with litigation now pending, their legal position too.

Electrolux hasn't commented publicly on the lawsuit. Class certification will take months to sort out, and the repair campaign rolls on either way.