SaferProducts incident

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20200624-EE918-2147371507. Severity: Injury, Seen by Medical Professional. Product: Masterbuilt MPS 230S Propane Smoker Model# MB21050813 (Propane Smoker built by Masterbuilt. Model MPS 230S). Incident: This documents serves to capture an incident that occurred on Saturday, April 4th in 2020 with a Propane smoker from Masterbuilt. The product I was using was the MPS 230S Propane Smoker. On the evening of April 4th, at approximately 6:30 PM MT, the brisket and pork butt I was smoking was taken off the smoker and into the house to rest the meat. When I came back outside to close the smoker down, I re-opened the area of the smoker body where the meats are cooked. Just as I was moving to close the door to to shut off the gas to extinguish the flame, the "Water Tray", which was filled with drippings from the meat that was just cooked, apparently sloshed slightly. This cause some drippings to fall down onto the flame directly below, which was covered only with the Wood tray, which also is made to burn wood during the process. This ignited and send a larger flame and caught the entire "Water Tray" on fire, which erupted into a very large flame and enveloped my entire face. I threw myself back away from the flame swatting to put it out and try to keep it from my face. The grill, which was positioned 9 feet behind me and was not on at the time, broke my fall. My wife, [REDACTED], was in the kitchen at the time and saw the eruption of flame and immediately came outside to see what was happening. The entire smoker was instantly on fire. My reaction next is probably what saved the entire situation from getting completely out of hand. I moved toward the tank and shut the valve to stop the flow of propane gas. I, then, removed the line and took the tank away from the smoker while the sm