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Product

Kobalt KM2040X-06 Item 506586

Category

Home & Garden

Report number

20170620-71351-2147399551

Ownership age

About 14 months to failure (from purchase date when reported)

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20170620-71351-2147399551. Matched catalog product: Kobalt KM2040X-06 Item 506586. Source model text: KM2040X 25243. Incident: On 5/23/17 we had a fire at our house caused by a Kobalt Electric Lawn Mower. There were no flames per se but some heat and lots of acidic smoke/soot. The soot contaminated our entire house.

This is a consumer incident report published on SaferProducts.gov. CPSC does not guarantee the accuracy of information submitted by people outside of CPSC. It is not automatically an official recall or manufacturer admission.
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Official report number: 20170620-71351-2147399551. Search that ID on SaferProducts.gov or match it in the CPSC public database export to verify this record.