On February 25, 2010, the Consumer Product Safety Commission published recall 10-147: Commercial Ice Cube Machines Recalled by Scotsman Due to Fire Hazard. About 43,000 units, distributed nationwide through foodservice equipment dealers from September 2006 through December 2009, sold new at $4,000 to $14,000. Four confirmed fires and 37 reports of burned or melted components. No injuries reported.
The recall is sixteen years old. The machines are not. Ice machines in this class run a long time, and units from that window still turn up in used listings, at auction, and bolted to bins in working kitchens. If you are buying one, this check comes before the price conversation.
The hazard, as CPSC states it
CPSC's wording: "The solenoid, an electrical component in the product, can fail and result in an electrical arc that can pose a fire hazard."
That is the whole documented mechanism. A solenoid is an electrically operated switch or valve actuator, and on this recall CPSC identifies it only as an electrical component, without naming which circuit it sits in. You will see explainers that assign it to the water inlet or the harvest cycle. That is inference, and we are not going to pass it off as the record.
What the numbers say is more useful than the mechanism anyway. Four fires and 37 burned or melted components means the common outcome was scorching that stopped short of a fire. Thirty-seven near-misses is not reassurance. It is the same failure, caught earlier.
The complete affected model list
Fourteen models. These are not variants of one machine. They are separate model numbers spanning the C-series and the EH-series, and the list is transcribed from the CPSC recall page:
- C0322
- C0330
- C0522
- C0530
- C0630
- C0830
- C1030
- C1448
- C1848
- C2148
- EH130
- EH222
- EH330
- EH430
If your machine's model number is not one of those fourteen, this recall does not cover it.
The model most summaries drop
Look at C0330 on that list, second entry.
Our first pass at this recall was built from a legal-mirror copy of the CPSC notice, and C0330 was missing from it. When we went back and read the primary CPSC page in full on 2026-08-19, C0330 was there. We corrected our own file and left the correction visible in it.
That matters to you for one reason: mirrors and aggregator summaries of old recalls drop entries, and the entry they dropped here is a real model with the same fire hazard as the rest of the list. If you check a C0330 against a third-party recall summary and it comes back clean, check it again against cpsc.gov or against Scotsman directly. C0330 is covered.
The serial filter: 05 through 09
Model number alone does not make a machine affected. The recall is scoped to units with serial numbers starting 05, 06, 07, 08, or 09, corresponding to manufacture in roughly 2005 through 2009. A machine on the model list with a serial prefix outside that range is not part of this recall.
Two honest caveats on that, because this is exactly where a confident-sounding article would overreach:
First, we do not have a verified Scotsman serial-number decode table. We have the CPSC statement that the affected serials begin with those two-digit prefixes, and that is what we will tell you. We are not going to hand you a serial-format diagram we have not confirmed against a Scotsman document.
Second, notice the mismatch between the serial range (roughly 2005 to 2009 manufacture) and the sale window (September 2006 through December 2009, a little over three years). Machines sat in distribution. The serial prefix is the identifier, not the purchase date, so read the prefix off the plate rather than reasoning backward from when someone bought it.
Verification and the free repair
Call Scotsman at 800-541-0520 with the model number and the complete serial number. Scotsman Group LLC is in Vernon Hills, Illinois, and the hotline published with the recall is still the one to use.
The remedy CPSC published is a free repair, and the instruction attached to it is worth quoting in spirit: stop using an affected unit and contact Scotsman to schedule service. Not "schedule it when convenient." Stop using it. If you have a machine on that model list with an 05-09 serial and no repair record, that is the posture the recall notice takes, and it is a reasonable one for an arcing electrical component inside a metal cabinet full of insulation.
We have not sourced what the repair involves at the component level, or how long it takes a technician, so we are not going to describe either. Scotsman will tell you when you give them the serial.
For used buyers: two safe paths, one walk
- Get repair documentation. A service record or Scotsman's own confirmation against that serial. That closes the recall question.
- Buy contingent on the repair. Arrange it with Scotsman at 800-541-0520 before the machine is installed and running in your kitchen.
- Neither available and the seller resists both. Decline. There is no discount on a 43,000-unit fire recall that makes the math work.
The part nobody puts in the recall article
Here is the thing that actually decides most of these purchases, and it has nothing to do with the solenoid.
A machine with a 05-09 serial prefix is 17 to 21 years old in 2026. Commercial ice machines in this class run about 7 to 10 years typically, 12 to 15 with strong maintenance, and closer to 5 if they are worked hard without service. Even with the recall repair documented and on file, you are looking at a machine well past the top of that band.
So the honest verdict on a recalled-serial C0530 is usually not "get it fixed and buy it." It is "the recall check and the age check both point the same direction." Documented repair moves a unit from unbuyable to old. It does not move it to good.
The line's retail status backs that up. The C0530 is discontinued store-wide, not just quietly dropped by one dealer: eight distinct sub-SKUs (air-cooled, water-cooled, and remote-condenser variants across 115V and 208-230V) all show as discontinued by the manufacturer with no price and a pointer to the Prodigy Elite successor line. Parts, on the other hand, are not a problem. Parts Town catalogs 187 line items for the C0530, so this is a repairable orphan rather than a dead one. That distinction is what separates a value play from a countdown timer, and on price the only clean recent comp we have is a certified-used C0530MA at $2,699, discounted from a $3,869 list, with a 90-day parts and labor warranty.
One warning about checking this yourself
CPSC's own keyword search on cpsc.gov, the ?combine= filter, does not filter reliably for automated tools. We know because we tested it against Scotsman specifically, a brand with a known recall on file, and it returned a generic list of recent consumer recalls instead. A "no results" from that search is not evidence a machine is clean.
Go to the recall page directly, or use a normal web search restricted to cpsc.gov to find the correct recall URL, or just call Scotsman with the serial. The phone call is the shortest path and the answer is authoritative.
The other Scotsman recall you will find, and why it does not apply
Search "Scotsman ice machine recall" and a second program surfaces: CPSC release 94-068, from May 1994. It covered roughly 121,000 Scotsman DC33 home ice cube machines built before September 1991 (models DC33A-1A, DC33A-1B, DC33A-1W, DC33PA-1A, DC33PA-1B, DC33PA-1W and DC33PA-1A-PB), after up to ten reports of units catching fire. The fix was a free retrofit through Scotsman at (800) 733-5383.
Read the release to the end and you get the sentence that matters for a commercial buyer: "Scotsman commercial ice machines are not affected by the retrofit program." The DC33 is a household undercounter unit. It is not the C-series. If a seller or a forum thread cites a 1990s Scotsman fire recall against a C0530, they have the wrong program. The commercial recall is 10-147, and it is the one the serial filter above is for.
The short version
Fourteen models: C0322, C0330, C0522, C0530, C0630, C0830, C1030, C1448, C1848, C2148, EH130, EH222, EH330, EH430. Serials starting 05 through 09. Solenoid arc, four fires, 37 burned or melted components, roughly 43,000 units. Free repair from Scotsman at 800-541-0520, and CPSC says stop using an affected machine until it is done.
Then, once it clears, ask the second question: it is still a machine built between 2005 and 2009. For everything after the recall check, the inspection walkthrough covers what to run and what to listen for.