SaferProducts incident

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20210111-88619-2147366575. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: Porter Cable PCX362010. Incident: I was using my Perter Cable table saw sold by Lowe�s (for only the second time although purchased in 2018). I began to first smell smoke, then see smoke billowing out from underneath the table. I immediately turned off the saw and unplugged it. The smoke got thicker and blacker and then flames began to shoot out from openings in the table housing. I grabbed the cord a dragged the unit out of my garage onto the driveway and sprayed it with a hose to extinguish the fire.