SaferProducts incident

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20210118-31424-2147366433. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Playskool F0686 (Playskool Glo Worm SmartSense Cry Sensor and Voice Recordable Toy (Amazon Exclusive)). Incident: I put batteries in the Glo Worm for the first time but it wouldn't do anything. The light came on once very briefly but that's it. I turned it off and went to get the manual in the other room to see if I was doing something wrong. When I got back, I smelled a burning plastic odor. I opened up the fabric shell and removed the white plastic part that holds the electronics. I felt something hot under my finger and that's when I noticed the plastic melting right above the button/microphone. Since the switch was off, I had to unscrew the door and remove the batteries to get it to stop (a screwdriver is required to access the battery compartment). I opened up the case to see what was going on and saw that the wires leading from the batteries had burned through their insulation and had begun to melt and burn the plastic case. If I hadn't noticed the burning smell and investigated, the whole thing could have melted or caught on fire and injured myself or my son.