Product
Char Broil 4638117
Category
Kitchen Appliance
Report number
20160808-95624-2147415265
Ownership age
About 60 months to failure (from purchase date when reported)
Failure type
Fire / ignition
Incident narrative
SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20160808-95624-2147415265. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Char Broil 4638117 (propane grill The model number is 4638117 The serial number is 0102840612 The product numbrer is 4638117 the label calls this an "Outdoor Gas Grill" by CharBroil.). Incident: Our Char Broil gas bbq almost caused our house to burn down. I had lit the grill and gone inside to retrieve the food. Apparently holes developed in the metal tube connecting the rubber gas line to the burners. There is evidence of charring under the grill, so flames must have been coming out of the tube. It appears that those flames melted the gas line, then ignited the gas flowing out of the severed gas line. (It must have been flames, not just heat from the bbq, otherwise the gas wouldn't have ignited.) The propane bottle, unrestrained by the gas line fell over. The lit gas line acted like a flame thrower, hurling flames at our house. Fortunately it had rained so the house was wet and we were able to grab a fire extinguisher and put this out. What a disaster.
Official report number: 20160808-95624-2147415265. Search that ID on SaferProducts.gov or match it in the CPSC public database export to verify this record.