SaferProducts incident

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20180614-04F3A-2147387365. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Yardworks 274-292 (Yardworks Fireman's Nozzle Model 274-292.). Incident: I purchased a Yardworks Fireman's Nozzle, model 274-292 for my home garden hose. I had it maybe a month and used it several times. Having unhooked my garden hose from my outside house spigot because I was going to use it to spray down a driveway I was going to sealcoat at a different location than my house, I transported the nozzle and hose in my work van. After I turned the water on from the spigot at the new location, I reached for the nozzle to turn it on to spray and before I could, the inner brass core shot out and landed so far away I couldn't find it in the grass. At first, I thought the hose had burst from the popping sound, but realized the brass inner core that actually moves in and out from the nozzle frame, was missing. I examined it and it looked as if it was the failure of the plastic that broke on the inside that I guess the brass fitting is connected to, which I have a picture of. Looks like plastic but maybe zinc or some type of metal. Either way, it was jagged and the failure occurred there. I took it back to Menards in Golden Valley Minnesota, today, and exchanged it for a new one. Having looked at the boxes of these nozzles, there were some from 2017 and 2018. I also told the manager on duty about it and also the Returns Customer gal about what happened so Yardworks could be informed. If a person or a child had been standing in front of it when it shot out, injury would have occurred because I couldn't even locate it on the driveway, which means it shot somewhere into the grass all the way across a 16 foot wide driveway. I'm also, leery about using the n