SaferProducts incident

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20250530-0808C-2147330971. Severity: No Incident, No Injury. Product: Ryobi RY401015US (Ryobi Mower, model RY401015US (107565001), Serial Number KC23092D010008). Incident: Lawn mower caught fire and burned completely. Fire department was called to put out the fire. The lawn around the lawnmower was burnt. This happened after the first battery was used and the mower was switched to the second battery. the mower started smoking almost imeadiately. At great risk to her safety, my mother in law removed both batteries from the mower while it was still smoking. The second battery was very hot. After the batteries were removed, the mower continued and increased smoking, eventually bursting into flames. The fire department was called but a neighbor assisted in putting out the flames before the fire department arrived. The flames burnt a section of the grass. There was little left of the mower other than charged plastic pieces with embedded metal and grass. Had this happened nearer to the house, it could have caught the house on fire.