Product
Weber Spirit 310
Category
Kitchen Appliance
Report number
20111004-3F0D4-2147474668
Ownership age
About 17 months to failure (from purchase date when reported)
Failure type
Fire / ignition
Incident narrative
SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20111004-3F0D4-2147474668. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Weber Spirit 310 (Weber Spirit Gas Grill Model #310, serial # DE1326331). Incident: Weber Gas Grill model#310, serial number DE1326331. Purchased at Home Depot, May 2010. On Tuesday, October 4th at approximately 5:10pm, the #2 control interface on the grill caught fire, flames shooting up out of the control interface and melting the knob. Owner immediately shut off gas, threw baking soda on control pad and put fire out. Called Wadsworth City Fire Department at approximately 5:20pm. Chief [REDACTED] of the Wadsworth City Fire department inspected the grill. His opinion at the time was a failure of the regulator connected to the control interface. He may be reached at [REDACTED]. Called Weber Grill Company at approximately 6:30pm to report incident. Weber representative attempted to indicate it was the fault of owner for not removing burners and running wire coat hanger through them. Advised them we would file report with CPSC and Consumer Reports.
Official report number: 20111004-3F0D4-2147474668. Search that ID on SaferProducts.gov or match it in the CPSC public database export to verify this record.