SaferProducts incident

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20120131-4413A-2147470775. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: Samsung Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Model SM-T230NU. Source model text: HP-S4253. Incident: My TV in the bedroom was turned on earlier today and while i was in the kitchen all of a sudden the fire alarm went on . I came to the bedroom and first noticed a poisoness smell but first I thought that its coming from my neighbors thru the AC vent and called conciege and notified him about this problem then few minutes later i've noticed clouds of smoke pouring down fom the corner on the room . Since my TV is standed on top of high cabinet right next to the AC vent , first i though that smoke is coming from my neighbor ( because AC was on and blowing the smoke away from the TV ) , also my TV was ON and working normal while the smoke was coming out ) . Building maintenance people came right away and couldn't notice that smoke is coming from my TV either so they called fire fiighters to examine the entire building ) . At that time i turned the TV off and smoke still was coming out for several minutes after that . When fire fighters came , they checked every cable in my apartment , asked me about the TV and said that this poison smoke smell like some kind of cable or electronics burn and its a common thing in their experience that these kind of burns cause the fire in the house . I was lucky to turn off the TV almost right away or it could blow up and get my entire apartment on fire . I tried to turn the TV back on in about 1 hour after they left and picture and sound came on OK for about 10 seconds but the entire screen turned black but i still could hear the sound . I've tri