TROY-BILT TB180B

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20250505-DB24F-2147331517. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: TROY-BILT TB180B. Incident: Using a corded, electric Troy-bolt leaf blower on Sat 3 May 2025, it made a loud noise and a piece of the moving part inside shot thru the plastic housing, landing about 6 feet away. Had the piece shot out the other side of the blower I would have been injured

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20220812-64DB6-2147354434. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: TROY-BILT TB180B. Source model text: TB480B. Incident: I was using my Troy Bilt model TB180B hand blower when it exploded blowing broken parts out both sides. Damage house siding and hitting me. There was no sign there might be a problem with the blower it just exploded. I wanted to report it to Try Bilt but they don't make it easy. The exploding parts was under great force and could cause serious injury.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20200412-114B7-2147372954. Severity: Injury, First Aid Received by Non-Medical Professional. Matched catalog product: TROY-BILT TB180B. Incident: I was using the Troybilt electric blower to blow grass out of my driveway after mowing. I had been using the blower off and on for about 20 minutes when I heard an extremely loud noise and felt shooting pain in my chest, arms, and legs. The unit internals seem to have broke and exploded out of the back and cut me.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20191020-BCBAA-2147377066. Matched catalog product: TROY-BILT TB180B. Incident: I was blowing pine needles off the driveway and there was a loud bang in the blower. I set it down and saw smoke coming out of it so I ran and unplugged from the wall. I found the blower hac it's sides blown out and the inside wheel was broken. I found half of the wheel in the neighbors yard.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20180514-90EFD-2147388001. Severity: Injury, Emergency Department Treatment Received. Matched catalog product: TROY-BILT TB180B. Incident: While using the TroyBilt TB180B to blow leaves off of my roof, the blower "exploded" in my hand. A hard plastic piece shot through the plastic housing and hit my hand, causing bruising, swelling, cuts and bleeding. I made a trip to the Emergency Room and had x-rays performed. They did not detect a break, but would not rule it out.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20171107-734FF-2147395697. Severity: Injury, First Aid Received by Non-Medical Professional. Matched catalog product: TROY-BILT TB180B. Incident: I was using a Troy-Bilt Leaf Blower. The impeller broke and exploded through the outer shell of the leaf blower. The shrapnel hit me on the stomach, chest and neck causing lacerations. The neck laceration could have been life threatening had it been deeper and cut my jugular vain. A video of the incident was captured by my security system.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20180610-58E10-2147387444. Severity: Injury, No First Aid or Medical Attention Received. Matched catalog product: TROY-BILT TB180B. Incident: Using the leaf blower to blow grass cuttings off driveway holding in my right hand. All of a sudden it literally exploded in my hand. The bang was loud enough to have my right ear lose hearing for a few seconds. A plastic piece was flown out on the driveway that definitely could have hurt someone or me if I was holding in my left hand. The entire side of the blower is cracked open leaving a big hole from the piece from the inside blew out.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20180715-F2939-2147386785. Severity: Injury, First Aid Received by Non-Medical Professional. Product: TROY-BILT TB180B (TROY-BILT Leaf Blower TB180B (serial unlegiable) Item 41BA180G966). Incident: I was using my TROY-BILT leaf blower to blow the water off my truck after I washed it and the fan housing exploded. I had the blower at shoulder height as I was blowing the water off the truck hood when it exploded. The internal fan broke apart sending shrapnel everywhere, I was hit in the neck and 3/4 of the fan stayed together and hit me in the shoulder. I had two lacerations on my neck which thankfully did not do serious damage, instead just bled for 10 to 15 min. The big chunk of fan that hit my shoulder created a softball size bruise because it busted one of the veins that runs across my deltoid. It also busted the skin and bled a little through my shirt. I am blessed because I realize this could have been much worse, especially soo close to my head and eyes. I have a handful of pics to go with my claim, my wife was standing 4 feet away when it happened and she thought I some how got electrocuted when she heard the Big Bang and I dropped the blower and jumped away.

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20190724-82DC8-2147379695. Severity: Injury, No First Aid or Medical Attention Received. Product: Troy Bilt TB 180 B (Troy Bilt TB 189 B leaf blower). Incident: I acquired this leaf blower as an item I received for cleaning out a neighbors garage in 2015. I have used it regularly on my driveway and street in front of my home along with the back patio. Today I cut my front lawn as usual, I edged and trimmed afterwards. Then I blow off the driveway and street gutter. I completed the driveway and all of the gutter except the last 2 feet or so. As I was swinging the blower in a sweeping motion left to right and back left again as I always do, it seemed to explode in my hands. It sounded like a large handgun going off in my hand. Then I immediately felt this intense pain in my leg. I would say it felt like I was shot, but I never have been, but I imagine it is pretty close to the feeling. I dropped the blower immediately on the ground and looked at my leg, then around to see if anybody else had heard the noise. A neighbor was out with her kids in a small pool and was looking at me as if she heard the noise. The blower was still powered up and I immediately went to the cord and unplugged it, not sure exactly what had happened. I looked for smoke from an electrical fire, but there was none. I then picked up the blower and a piece came sliding out a large hole in the side of the casing, and something else was rattling around inside the blower. There was another large hole on the other side of the casing. I had no idea what had just happened, but now my leg was really hurting. I couldn't understand why the thing exploded the way it did. I went in and examined my leg. A large welt started to form on my upper thigh. The welt was about the sam