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Product

Traeger Unknown. Current model is "Tailgater"

Category

Kitchen Appliance

Report number

20201012-85862-2147369272

Ownership age

About 31 months to failure (from purchase date when reported)

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20201012-85862-2147369272. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Traeger Unknown. Current model is "Tailgater" (Traeger Pellet Grill Model Unknown. Current model is "Tailgater"). Incident: Pellet grill purchased at Costco March 2018. Worked fine for about six months and then began having issues with control. Would sometimes not light and sometimes would intermittently shut down. About one month ago, it caught fire when transitioning from the start up "smoke" stetting to cook temperature. Used a fire extinguisher to put out he fire. Thoroughly cleaned the grill after which, the unit functioned properly for about three more uses. On 10/11/2020, on attempt to use the grill it caught fire again. My adult son attempted to extinguish the fire. The smoke was so thick that he was having a difficult time locating the electric plug to remove power from the unit. About the time he located the plug, there was a flash that had enough force to blow the lid to the grill open at which time flames were visible. This had potential for property damage due to fire as well as personal injury from burns.

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