SaferProducts incident

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20210614-4A513-2147363526. Severity: Injury, First Aid Received by Non-Medical Professional. Matched catalog product: Solo Stove Bonfire. Incident: On two occasions I was burned by a Solo Stove, once on my foot, once on my hand. This was at a friend's house. Approx Feb 2021, the stove was set up on a backyard deck, I was seated approx 2 feet from the stove. It was night time and, therefore, relatively dark outside. There was a fire in the stove. The fire had been burning about 2 hours. As I was stretching my body, as one might do when relaxing, my bare foot came into contact with the outside cylinder of the stove. I instantly pulled away. Three of my toes were burned to the point of needing to ice them for several minutes. The second incident, Jun 13, 2021, when I burned my right hand, was the morning after we'd had a fire in the Solo Stove. The night before we'd burned a fire in the Solo Stove for approximately 2 hours. At the end of the night, while there were still embers in the stove, we put the stainless lid on the stove to keep any ash/embers from escaping and to extinguish the fire. The next morning, expecting the stove to have cooled overnight, I put my right hand on the stainless lid and burned 4 fingers and the palm of my hand. After 3 hours of icing my hand the pain subsided.