SaferProducts incident

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20190411-D7869-2147381726. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: JBL Charge 3 (Bluetooth wireless speaker, brand JBL, model Charge 3, color gray. This is a link to the product on company�s website https://www.jbl.com/bluetooth-speakers/JBL+CHARGE+III.html). Incident: My wireless speaker caught fire while charging. I was at home at the time and managed to limit the amount of damage this incident could have resulted in. It still damaged a brand new chest of drawers that the speaker was placed on while charging, and smoke damage made the room uninhabitable, I had spend time and money to repaint the room so we could use it again. It was a Bluetooth wireless speaker, brand JBL, model Charge 3. I�ve had the speaker for about a year and four months at the time of the incident and never had any issues with it. I plugged the charger into the speaker and about an hour later I heard a noise and the fire alarm went off. I opened the door to the room and it was filled with thick smoke. The speaker unit was hot to touch and melted burned plastic was oozing out from it. I threw a T-shirt over it to be able to grab it and I threw it out of the window.