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Product

Weber Genesis

Category

Kitchen Appliance

Report number

20180826-FE318-2147385946

Ownership age

About 71 months to failure (from purchase date when reported)

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20180826-FE318-2147385946. Matched catalog product: Weber Genesis. Source model text: Weber Genesis 8330. Incident: My grill exploded burning my face, arm and leg.(there were two explosions back to back a split second apart. When i heard the 1st explosion I started moving towards right and back.) With force of the grill explosion it pushed back and i landed on my knees and hands. I fractured my right hand and wrist in 3 different areas. I immediately went in the home to put water over my face because my face was on fire. i yelled at my wife to call 911 we have fire. Police department was there in 5 minutes, ambulance came a minute later, then another minute later fire department was there too. Everything happened so fast. I was brought to Nyack Hospital. Then transferred via helicopter to the Burn Center at Westcher Medical.

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Official report number: 20180826-FE318-2147385946. Search that ID on SaferProducts.gov or match it in the CPSC public database export to verify this record.