SaferProducts incident

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20120504-CB086-2147467882. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: Bosch Dishwasher. Incident: Bosch Dishwasher that was installed by our home-builder in late 2001 continued running non-stop during the night in late January 2012 and eventually overflowed which resulted in a flood in our kitchen - ruining our floors and some sheetrock wall meterial. Recovery firm brought in to limit mold and other damage. All home repairs have been completed as of April 2012. Repairman was brought in to diagnose the reason dishwasher malfunctioned and he recognized it as being part of the recall issued in 2009. Apparently, the circuit board did catch on fire but fortunately in our case the forever-running water must have drowned the fire. Instead of fire damage we had water damage. We were never notified of the recall and so therefore were not aware that repairs were needed.