SaferProducts incident

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20251121-92524-2147326185. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: Commercial Electric Commercial Electric 4 ft. 88-Watt Equivalent Integ. Incident: I purchased a "spin light" manufactured by Commercial Electronics at Home Depot about 6 months or so ago. It has been awaiting installation since then (bought for an interior stair well... not a huge priority) and its been sitting on a table on our covered back porch awaiting its turn on the honey-do list. The box was never opened. Last night, I walked out to our porch after dinner and the box was smoking. It subsequently, and quickly, caught fire. I grabbed a spatula from the table and threw the now flaming light into the yard. My wife responded to some words I'd rather not repeat, and we watched in amazement as the thing burned ... we were honestly kinda stunned at what we were seeing. I threw it in a bucket of water after taking some "you gotta be kidding me" pics. Very thankful that we caught it (it was sitting on a wooden table (scorched, but still serviceable)... quite literally at bed time... and where it was, had it not been caught it would have burned our log home to the ground... table to railing, railing to deck... gone.) We were lucky... our concern is for others who have these things.