SaferProducts incident

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20240216-9A178-2147340954. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Lettuce Grow Indoor Farm Stand with Glow Rings (Lettuce Grow Hydroponic Farmstand is a white, adjustable height indoor/outdoor food growing system made from ocean bound BPA free plastic recovered from local coastal communities that is supposedly FDA approved, food safe, and California Prop 65 compliant (according to the company). I purchased a 36 plant system with 5 glow lights but only had 30 plants set up with 4 glow lights. The Glow light rings are designed and sold to fit the farmstand. The entire system is contained within four square feet.). Incident: I own an indoor vertical farming system with LED light kits that are designed specifically for the product, called the Lettuce Grow Farmstand and Glow Rings. It is designed to be self-contained, with timers for both the lights and the water pump, so that the water is pumped up through a vertical pipe to the top of the farmstand, then filters out and down to water the plants. The only interaction with the farmstand occurs when you plant, harvest, or do the twice yearly cleaning and restocking of all plants they recommend. The pump turns on once an hour for 15 minutes of watering, and the LED Glow Lights are on for 16 hours a day per the instructions provided. Otherwise there is not a common use of the product in the conventional sense. Today as I sat at my dining room table working on my laptop, I smelled what I can only describe as a hot glue gun burning. I went all over the place investigating, inside and out. I came back inside and noticed the lights were off on the farmstand but the water pump was working. As I began to dissemble the stand I found that two of the Glow Ring wires had caught fire and melted together, then began to melt the internal, vertical pipe that carries the water up and out to the plants. No injuries occurred.