SaferProducts incident

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20190617-2590A-1881171. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: TRIP AA 64110 (Trip AA Mercury Cadmium Batteries 1/5 volt R6UM3 1.5 volt Manufactured in Amarillo, TX). Incident: This consumer is reporting that he purchased a miniature pop up lantern from the store named in this incident report in February 2019 and that from the very beginning of use he had problems with it not working or flashing so he put it in a drawer to return on his next trip to that store. When he removed it from the drawer he said that there was a thick liquid that resembled the color of coffee with creamer in the battery compartment. He is reporting this incident as a burn and potential fire hazard stating that the batteries burning up could have possibly sparked a fire. There are no injuries The caller has contacted the manufacturer, he exchanged email with [REDACTED], [REDACTED], she did send him claim form. https://www.harborfreight.com/250-lumen-compact-pop-up-lantern-64110.html All information and emails in folder supplied. Today they are wanting to send an unknown contaminated product through the mail or Fedx. Have they not already involved to many people into this unknown contaminated product. This company seems to not care about the safety of others. They pushed this claim and now they will not do anything to resolve the issue they created. Either this product was sold and returned , then put back on the shelf or it was sold from their shelf contaminated. I would really like to know if I should be worried about exactly what this contamination is. Nobody can elaborate or refuses to elaborate. I would like for a separate entity to test this unknown contamination since I might be in danger, other customers and store employees? How would you like to find that you bought