SaferProducts incident

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20260720-59C31-2147313648. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: LG Model LSEL6335XE (This is a new LG slide in smooth top electric range, it is a stainless steel faced, smooth glass burner top with large control knobs on the top of the front vertical face. It is a 30" wide x standard 24" counter depth.). Incident: We purchased a new LG kitchen package that included an electric smooth top slide in range and an over the range microwave unit. while installing the over the range microwave I placed some foam packaging strips on the stove top to rest the microwave on. The wife was helping to lower the old unit down and while leaning against the new LG stove was somehow able to turn on a back burner which started to melt the foam. We cleaned up the small mess that came with the melted foam and let the burner completely cool. The stove top was then protected with a quilted moving blanket to prevent any damage from resting the new microwave on it as we got ready to lift it in to place. The same ting happened again, the wife, she is 5'2", was leaning against the burner control knobs on the front of the range and was somehow able to turn on a burner again. This time the blanket caught fire, she pulled from the range top onto the floor and stamped out the small flames. The main floor of the house filled with smoke but no one was injured.