Product
Cuisinart 733-24H
Category
Kitchen Appliance
Report number
20180930-7CCF0-2147385271
Ownership age
About 61 months to failure (from purchase date when reported)
Failure type
Fire / ignition
Incident narrative
SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20180930-7CCF0-2147385271. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Cuisinart 733-24H (Cuisinart 3.5 Quart saute pan, model #733-24H). Incident: I own a Cuisinart 3.5 Quart saute pan, model #733-24H. I am sure I have used this pan hundreds of times. Earlier this month I was cooking dinner in my kitchen with my daughter. I was using this pan to cook several slices of bacon on my gas range over medium heat, as I have done many times before. After about 5 minutes into the cooking process, we heard a very loud explosion, a sound I imagine a gun makes when it is fired. We then heard several crashing sounds in quick succession. We had no idea what happened. After turning off the stove and searching the kitchen for at least half an hour, I found the cause. A cap covering a rivet in the inside of the pan had burst off and ricocheted through my kitchen. Luckily, neither my daughter nor I were in the line of the cap's trajectory, and no one was injured. We have not used any Cuisinart cookware since this incident.
Official report number: 20180930-7CCF0-2147385271. Search that ID on SaferProducts.gov or match it in the CPSC public database export to verify this record.