Fire Extinguishers

83YOF PRESENTS AFTER TRIPPING AND FALLING INTO A FIRE EXTENGUISHER AT HOME, 3 SKIN TEARS ON LEFT ARM AND LACERATION ON LT 3RD FINGER, SWELLING TO LT CHEEK. DX: HEMATOMA, LACERATION, SKIN TEAR, FALL

25YOM PRESENTING TO THE ER AS A WALK-IN. PT IS PRESENTING WITH RIGHT HAND PAIN. PT SAYS HE WAS UPSET THIS MORNING AND PUNCHED A FIRE EXTINGUISHER WITH HIS RIGHT HAND DX: PAIN OF RIGHT HAND

17YOM PATIENT PRESENTS FOR SMOKE INHALATION VS INHALATION OF FIRE EXTINGUISHER POWDER. THERE WAS A FIRE IN HIS FATHER'S OFFICE AND A FIRE EXTINGUISHER WAS USED. UNKNOWN IF FD ON SCENE. DX: INHALATION OF SMOKE

53YOM PRESENTS WITH RIB PAIN. PATIENT REPORTS HE WAS ON A BOAT WHEN IT CAUGHT FIRE AND AS HE WAS TRYING TO USE THE FIRE EXTRINGUISHER HE FELL AND INJURED HIS SIDE. NO FIRE DEPARTMENT REPORTED AT SCENE. DX: MULTIPLE RIB FRACTURES

12YOM TRIPPED WHEN PLAYING OUTSIDE AND STRUCK A FIRE EXTINGUISHER. DX: RT EYEBROW LAC

44YOM, CONFLICTING STORY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED EITHER WAS DRIVER AT GAS STATION AND STRUCK BY A TRUCK AND THE AIRBAGS DEPLOYED IN HIS FACE CAUSING SMALL FACIAL LACERATION AND AIRBAG POWDER CAUSED HIM COUGH VERSUS WAS CLEANING HIS TRUCK WHEN THERE WAS A FIRE AND USED FIRE EXTINGUISHER TO PUT IT OUT AND BEGAN HAVING COUGH DX: ACUTE COUGH

51YOF WAS FREAKING OUT AT A HOTEL, PULLED A FIRE ALARM AND TOOK A FIRE EXTINGUISHER AND THREW IT THROUGH A WINDOW, CUTTING RIGHT WRIST DX: WRIST LACERATION, PSYCHOTIC EPISODE

60YOM HAS RIGHT EYE IRRITATION AFTER A FIRE EXTINGUISHER DISCHARGED INTO EYE DX: CORNEAL ABRASION OF RIGHT EYE

64YOM INVOLED IN A HOME FIRE, HOUSE ENGULFED WITH FLAMES HE TRIED TO EXTINGUISH FIRE AND RESCUE PETS FOR 20 MINUTES INSIDE BURNING HOUSE, FD AT SCENE DX; FACIAL BURNS, BILATERAL HANDS BURNS

42YOF PRESENTS WITH SI IN THE SETTING OF USING IV HEROIN AND FENTANYL AND REPORTS FALLING FORWARD AND STRIKING HER HEAD ON A FIRE EXTINGUISHER. DX: SUICIDAL IDEATION, FALL

8YOF PRESENTS WITH LACERATION TO THE RIGHT PINKY FINGER. LACERATION SUFFERED AT SCHOOL. SHE THINKS SHE CUT IT ON THE FIRE EXTINGUISHER. STATED SHE WAS RUNNING AND SHE REACHED OUT TO GRAB SOMETHING AND CUT IT. DX: LACERATION OF RIGHT LITTLE FINGER WITHOUT FOREIGN BODY WITHOUT DAMAGE TO NAIL

42YOM HAD A FIRE EXTINGUISHER FALL ONTO HIS LEFT MIDDLE FINGER DX: CONTUSION FINGER

During a 6 year teardown of Ansul Sentry 5# ABC Portable Fire Extinguisher, model #AA05-1 it was discovered that the siphon tube used in expelling of chemical dry powder was not long enough to fully discharge extinguisher. There were 4 extinguishers with this model number and 2 had siphon tubes of inadequate length. All extinguishers looked at are manufactured in 2011.

I don't have an incident, but I came across this on Amazon and it made me concerned. The fire extinguisher is listed as being >99% water-based, but also as certified for class B, C, and K fires. My understand was that water is never appropriate for C or K. I've just realized that I didn't include the Amazon listing. It is here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B586JB7M/

Aksipo Fire Blanket Fiberglass Fire Emergency Blanket - when I opened it fiberglass went EVERYWHERE, into my skin (possibly eyes). Took hours to clean up.

During a brush fire, this Kidde Fire extinguisher failed to work properly resulting in a much larger burn than if the extinguisher had worked.

Fire extinguisher failed to discharge. As a result, the fire grew in size.

During annual fire extinguisher training we are required to put out a controlled fire. I pulled pin and gave a short burst of extinguisher, I then proceeded to approach base of fire and attempted to discharge the remainder of bottle but nothing happened. Squeezing the handle did nothing, it appears the valve is stuck. I had fire fighter personal try also and nothing.

A Kidde fire extinguisher blew its top. It was an ABC type. The model is Fire Away 460 and is not listed on the Kidde recall list. The pressure has always been in the green region. It was stored in the basement where it was not subject to heat. It was not being used at the time and I'm not aware of it ever having been dropped. No injuries, just a $20,000 cleanup bill.

My mom got me a fire blanket from Prepared Hero. The blanket is a woven fiberglass matt. It was in the back of my work truck, I never opened it or anything like that and it was shedding fibers of glass that embedded themselves deep into my hands. This started happening right after Christmas, and it took me 3 months to figure out where it was coming from because the glass fibers are basically invisible and I never suspected the fire blanket to be the culprit. The company has no warning label of any kind on the product, and they make it seem like its perfectly safe to have it out of its bag. There’s a picture of a person who uses theirs as a floor mat under the grill to protect the deck from embers. This is an insane thing to do. The glass fibers drove me to near insanity as I had no idea where they were coming from and long fibers of several inches buried themselves in my hands by the thousands, or so it feels. And they don’t come out of the skin. I’ve been to several doctors because of this. My hand got infected with MRSA. It’s now august 13, so its almost been 8 months, and my hand still bothers me every day. The reason this is so frustrating is the fact that the company not only fails to mention the danger which they are well aware of based on some digging I did, but they actually actively hide it from customers. Had I known the blanket was the source I would have fixed the problem immediadtely rather than getting hammered by it day in and day out for 3 months. My hand is in a crazy state right now. I will likely never be able to use it properly again. And the glass causes chronic inflammation which can lead to cancer, so I do worry that this company is going kill me. I think they need to be forced to put a warning on their product that says, “this product is made of glass fibers which shed off of it, are invisible, and can penetrate flesh deeper than skin layers. The glass is coated in silicone which is notoriously resistant to adhesion or dissolving. It will