SaferProducts incident

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20151029-A0CD7-1527201. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Cub Cadet 13WQ93AP009 (LTX 1050 Lawn Tractor). Incident: Caller is reporting his lawn tractor regarding an incident October 27th, 2015 with his unit purchased from Tractor Supply Company May 16th, 2014. His wife drove the lawn tractor the house to the barn which is approximately 300 yard after cutting a small portion of grass for approximately 20 minutes. The submitter noted that she turned off tractor then got off of the tractor, walked a couple of steps when the unit burst into flames resulting in 20 foot flames and resulting in extinguishing by the Emitsburg Fire Department. There is nothing left but the metal of the tractor. The caller is reporting this product as a severe explosion, fire hazard realizing that the outcome would have been much more severe had his wife not already walked away from the tractor. There are no injuries being reported The caller contacted the manufacturer October 28th, 2015 and was informed that she had to transfer his call to someone else. She transferred the caller to [REDACTED], 1 (800) 269-6215 who provided the caller with reference# 151028-000788. The caller would ask that the manufacturer reimburse him at his purchase price due to the age of the unit being only approximately 17 months old along with the fact that he has seen many reports involving fire with various models of the product manufactured by this same manufacturer.